Sonu Sood
Bollywood actor and humanitarian - the face of India's pandemic-era migrant relief.
Sonu Sood is one of Indian cinema's most recognisable character actors with a career spanning Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Punjabi films. He broke into the mainstream with Dabangg (2010) and has since featured in films across genres.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Sood organised travel home for hundreds of thousands of stranded migrant workers, funded medical equipment, and ran scholarship programs - work that earned him the United Nations Development Programme's SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award and a place on TIME's 100 Most Influential People list.
On stage he speaks on resilience, the responsibility that comes with public reach, and what large-scale crisis response actually looks like up close. His talks land with corporate audiences, educational institutions, and CSR forums.
- Resilience and reinvention
- Crisis leadership and humanitarian response
- Cinema, identity, and public influence
- Corporate social responsibility in practice
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