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Ram Gopal Verma’s Company won for Vivek Oberoi the best male debut as well as the best supporting actor male awards at the prestigious Filmfare Awards. This movie, saw Vivek in a gangsters rol, a role he plays to perfection and which he repeated later in the movies Shootout at Lokhandwala and Rakht Charitra.
Today, 3rd September is the birthday of this versatile star. Lets reminiscence some aspects of his career so far.
Vivek has done not just good gangster movies but successful movies in other genres as well. Some such genres are romance (Saathiya), horror (Kaal and Darna Mana Hai), super-hero (Krrish-3), Shakespearian drama (Omkara), action (Road and Dum), comedy (Masti and Grand Masti) and political thriller (Yuva). His versatility got him the prestigious offer to do dubbing for a huge Hollywood movie, The Amazing Spiderman 2. A high point of his career as an actor was praise from the great Gulzar Saab.
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Vivek is the son of actor Suresh Oberoi. His mom’s name is Yashodhara Oberoi and in her name he has started a Foundation for doing woks of philanthropy. He is also an astute businessman and his firm KARRM Infrastructure was in the news for donating 25 flats in Thane to families of CRPF martyrs. Vivek has launched an affordable housing scheme at Shahapur, Maharashtra, where 15000 families can get housing at a reasonable price