Biography: Dev was born in Mahisha, a small village near Keshpur, to Guru and Mousumi Adhikari. He has a sister, Deepali. His nickname is Raju. He spent his childhood living with his maternal uncle in Chandrakona; after that, he was brought up in Mumbai. He attended Purushottam High School, in Bandra, and Bharatiya Vidyapeeth University, in Pune, receiving a Diploma in Computer engineering from the latter. After receiving his diploma, Dev returned to Mumbai and started his film career as an observer on the set of Abbas-Mustan's Taarzan: The Wonder Car. He also did an acting course at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Academy.[1] According to the article of India Times Dev is marrying Subhasree Ganguly a hot actress of Cinema of West Bengal.
2005–2007
His first role as actor was in the 2005 film Agnishapath, directed by Prabir Nandi, opposite Rachana Banerjee. The film did not perform well at the box office and was declared a flop. By this point, the film I Love You, directed by Ravi Kinnagi, was in development at Shree Venkatesh Films. Dev met with the producers and gained the male lead role.[11]
Despite the financial success of I Love You, Dev did not take on any other roles for about 14 months. He went to Mumbai, and, dedicated to improving himself, learned dance and trained under fight choreographer Aejaz Gulab (of Shootout at Lokhandwala and Mission Istaanbul).
2008–2010
Dev returned to acting in director Raj Chakraborty's action-romance Challenge, opposite Subhashree Ganguly.[12] The film was a huge hit in West Bengal, giving Dev a considerable popularity boost.
Dev did item songs like "Pante Tali," as special appearance in the film Chirodini Tumi Je Amar, the track as well as the video were very successful. He also performed an additional item number in the film Jackpot, directed by Kaushik Ganguly.[13] The song was a remake of "Jibone ki Pabona," a track originally performed by Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee. As special appearance Dev also appeared in Ekti Tarar Khonje directed by Abhik Mukhopadhyay.[14]
In December 2010, Indian romantic Bengali film Shedin Dekha Hoyechilo starring Dev and Srabanti Chatterjee released, directed by Sujit Mondol and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. This is the second collaboration between Dev and Sujit Mondol. This movie was one of the biggest hits of 2010. The title track of the movie being shot at Switzerland is one of the best romantic songs of tollywood ever. The chemistry between Dev and Srabanti is so mellifluous that it added a new flavour which was tremendously appreciated by the audience and critics. The film had an item number by Samidh and Rishi "Khokababu jaye, Lal juto paye" which was the entry song for Dev in the movie. The song's choreographer Baba Yadav said, "Dev has done a great job. There's no doubt that he is an amazing dancer...What I like about Dev is the fact that he enjoys dancing. This shows in his movements."[15] "Khokababu jaye, Lal juto paye" was the costliest song of Tollywood (costing nearly 50-60 million)[15] until the release of Khokababu in January 2012, which contained the costlier item number, "Dance maare Khokababu".
In 2010, Dev received the STAR Ananda Shera notun Protibha Award, at the 2010 Shera Bangali Awards.[16][17][18]
2011–present
In June 2011, Dev starred alongside Koel Mallick in Paglu, directed by Rajib Biswas. Produced by Surinder Films, this movie was the highest opener in Tollywood history before Challenge 2 was released in October 2012. Paglu is highest in terms of earning T.R.P on Bengali television till date, having a T.R.P of 12.25, when it was telecast on Star Jalsha. It even left 3 Idiots behind in the T.R.P. battle.[19] As per Sree Venkatesh distribution head, Debasis Sarkar – "Paglu released in 166 theatres across Bengal in the first week. The second week has seen the number of theatres rising to 169. The movie is running in 17 theatres in Kolkata. The gross collections till Monday's (13 June) matinee show have crossed Rs 50 million."[20] The film was a super entertainer. It was extremely well packaged, whether it is songs, drama and action. Paglu was such a hit in Bengal, that even Salman Khan's Ready was relegated to second or third place in the region.[21] This film also introduced martial art in Bengali cinema and Dev as the first martial art hero. The director said – " Dev was superb with the action sequences. He did some martial art stunts and also learnt kickboxing for two months only for my movie. I was amazed with his dedication. Bengali films haven't ever seen such action sequences before. There is a train and a bike chase sequence that was shot by Zoyeb and Dev. I was literally scared when they were shooting this sequence without any body double. Hats off to their courage".[22][23][24][25]
In November 2011, his movie Romeo, directed by Sujit Mondol and co-starring Subhashree Ganguly,[26] was released and earned Dev commendations from all sections of audience and from critics. The movie also saw Dev-Subhashree, the most talked about jodi (pair) of Tollywood and that too after two years.[27][28][29][30] In December, a biography of Dev entitled Aami Dev, was released by Greymind Publications.[31]
In January 2012, Dev starred in Khokababu, the 2nd highest-grossing Tollywood film, once again opposite Subhashree Ganguly. The film directed by Shankar Aiyya and produced by Ashok Dhanuka Himanshu Dhanuka of Eskay Movies, is the longest running movie of 2012, remaining in theatre for more than 300 days.[32] The film had an item number "Dance Maare Khokababu" which was the costliest song of Tollywood[33][34] till Challenge 2 released in October 2012, whose title track "Challenge nibi na sala" broke the record to become the costliest song till now made in Tollywood.
In October 2012, Dev's film Challenge 2 co–starring Pooja Bose[35] was released in 270 theatres across India including West Bengal, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bihar, Assam, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh.[36][37][38][39][40] Directed by Raja Chanda and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films this is the most expensive movie made so far in Tollywood with a budget of 140 million (US$2.3 million).[41][42] It broke many records in the Tollywood upon release by taking the largest nationwide opening, earning 113.5 million (US$1.9 million)( i.e. 80% of its Budget ) in 4 days.[43] The record first week box office collection of Challenge 2 is 198 million (US$3.2 million) breaking the previously first week record collection of Paglu (Paglu collected 41.5 million (US$680,000) in its first week)[44] by a huge gap. This movie is highest opener in history of Tollywood having over 95 percent occupancy rate in theatres of West Bengal & Kolkata and 60 percent occupancy rate in other states. Also this movie is highest grossing movie till now in tollywood overtaking Khokababu with big difference, thus becoming all-time blockbuster movie in Tollywood.[45][46][47] After the release of Challenge 2, he became busy for his next consecutive three films shooting. Then in 14 June under the banner of Eskay Movies directed by Rajib Biswas the film Khoka 420 was released, which was starring Dev, Subhasree and Nusrat Jahan in lead roles. The film made a record of first day collection which broke all the previous records of first day collection until Jeetendra Madnani's Boss was released. Then Khoka 420 runs above 80 days which made it a blockbuster. After that, from September the new theatrical trailer of new film of Dev Rangbaaz was released. The film was starring Dev and Koel in lead roles. This film made a huge record in the box office. It broke all the previous records of all the movies. At first it broke the records of first day collection of Boss. Then it also broke down the grossing records of many huge films such as Challenge 2, Awara.But all this records goes to vein as another film of Dev Chander Pahar (Mountain of the moon) released on 25 December.This film also break down the records of Rangbaaz.This film just turned the whole career of Dev.For this film Dev become the most popular and biggest Legend Star of this decade.Chander Pahar also done a great business in all the states as it is released on 27 December and it is the first film to release in the whole USA,UK,Africa,Australia and etc.It collected 90.55 lakh (US$150,000) by breaking the previous records.Then in just 27 Days Chander gathered a collecion of 195.44 crore (US$32 million) and it still running in USA and Africa.[1].Now he is packed for the new 6 films named Buno Haansh,Mafia,Paglu 3,Rangbaaz 2,Khokababu 3 and Remake of Magadheera.

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