Deepak is a Bollywood film director and producer active since the mid-1970s. He is perhaps best known for his family-oriented action drama films, in which he often cast actors such as Mithun Chakraborty and Jagdeep throughout the late 1970s and 1980s in films such as Tarana (1979) and Ustadi Ustad Se (1982) and Ajay Devgan in the leading role in films such as Ek Hi Raasta in 1993. At one point in his career he had set up his own film company Bahry Films.