Unfair to compare my work with my father's: Bobby Deol

"Never thought I had to come out of his shadows or was under the shadows. People around me thought like that," Bobby said.

"Things happen the way they happen, otherwise every actor would be a superstar. For me to achieve even one-third of what my father has achieved would be a great achievement. One can't compare the work my father has done," he added.

Bobby says he saw several phases of his father's career, at its peak, his downfall and his eventual rise, and realized that the only trick of the trade is to keep working.

"My dad only wanted to work, he never looked at the number game ever in his life. If you calculate the maximum number of hits given, it's by my father," he says.

While Bobby became the blue-eyed boy of Bollywood soon after his debut opposite Twinkle Khanna in the 1995 blockbuster 'Barsaat', the roles started to dry up for him by the mid-2000s.

He returned to screen this year after a hiatus with 'Race 3', which also starred Salman Khan, and the actor insists that he is not the same Bobby anymore.

Bobby currently has 'Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se' up for release which pairs him with his father and brother Sunny for the fourth time.

The "Poster Boys" actor, however, hopes he had worked more with his father.

The third installment of 'Yamla Pagla Deewana' has been helmed by Navaniat Singh.

'Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se' is scheduled to release on August 31.