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Syed Sohel Ryan (born 18 April 1991) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Telugu language films. He made his debut in 2008 with Srikanth Addala's Kotha Bangaru Lokam in a supporting role beside the main lead Varun Sandesh. Later, Sohel went on to play important roles in films such as D for Dopidi (2013), Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha (2013), Janatha Garage (2016). He played as one of the main leads in the film Eureka (2020). In 2020, Sohel appeared in Telugu Version of the reality TV show Bigg Boss (Telugu season 4) and emerged as the second runner up and walked with 25 lacks on the finale.

Early life
Sohel was born on 18 April, 1991 in Maredugonda village, Karimnagar, Telangana. His father is Salim Syed, who works in Singareni Coal mines,Centenary Colony, Karimnagar. Sohel attended Pragathi High School, Centenary Colony Karimnagar. During his Intermediate college, he appeared for an audition that was being conducted for the film Kotha Bangaru Lokam and was selected to play a prominent role along with the main lead Varun Sandesh as a friend. After the huge success of the film, Sohel focused on his education and graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India with a B.Com degree. Later in 2013, he attended St. Mary's College to pursue MBA, but discontinued as he got an opportunity in the film Music Magic (2013) and wanted to focus on film career.

Career
In 2013, Sohel played important roles in films such as D for Dopidi (2013), Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha (2013). He then played lead roles in films such as Music Magic (2013), The Bells (2015) , Cine Mahal (2015). In 2016, Sohel got an opportunity to play a role with Jr NTR as a friend in Janatha Garage (2016). He later worked in TV serials like Nathicharami and Krishnaveni in between 2016 and 2018. He also worked in short films like Modati Pelli Choopulu (2016) which was under the banner Pink Elephant Pictures produced by Niharika Konidela, Nene Kani (2017)  , C/o Confidence (2018) , Akbar (2019).

In 2019, Sohel appeared for an audition conducted for a lead role in the film Eureka (2020) and was selected as the second lead. However, the film couldn't get released on big screen due to COVID-19 in March 2020, but it went onto be streamed on Amazon Prime and received good reviews from the audiences.

In September 2020, Sohel has risen to fame when he appeared in Bigg Boss (Telugu season 4) as one of the contestants, and stood as second runner up on the Finale on 20 December, 2020. During the last week of the show Bigg Boss (Telugu season 4) when journey videos were telecasted, Sohel said that in spite of his hard work for 10 years in the industry, he has not gotten proper recognition that he should have, yet he is determined to make his career in films with hard work and dedication, and make it big one day as he know nothing apart from the film field. On the finale of Bigg Boss (Telugu season 4), Sohel got applause from Mega star Chiranjeevi and the host Nagarjuna. After coming out of Bigg Boss (Telugu season 4) house, actor Brahmanandam told sohel over the phone, that he is ready to act in sohel's film with out any remuneration.

On 24 December 2020, Sohel announced his first film as the main lead after Bigg Boss (Telugu season 4) , with debutant director Srinivas Vinjanampati and Producer Appi Reddy who produced successful films such as George Reddy (2019) and Pressure Cooker (2020) in the past. Film's Shooting has commenced on 3 March, 2020 and the first look was released on the same day which got huge response from the audiences and fans. Sohel and Srinivas Vinjanampati collaborated previously for the short film Nene Kani (2017)

In an interview during the film announcement on 24 December 2020, Sohel mentioned that he has also signed a Hindi Web Series under the production house of Achyutha Rama Rao. Sohel has mentioned about his dream to be known as a good actor in all South Indian languages with his unique scripts selections going forward, and mentioned that he is planning his film scripts choices to be unique drawing a comparison with that of Ayushmann Khurrana's film choices in Bollywood.