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Abhay Deol on his new avatar
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SCRIPTING FATE Abhay Deol
With his debut film Socha Na Tha
as well as with Ahista Ahista, Abhay Deol couldn’t make his mark as an actor. Yet he never seemed to suffer from an identity crisis because of the fame of the Deol clan in Hindi filmdom. In his recent release Honey Moon Travels Private Limited though, he was noticed and appreciated as an actor.
His choice of roles obviously guided by factors other than box office potential, Abhay has signed another film which is getting attention because of its intriguing title – Manorama Six Feet Under. Directed by adman Navdeep Singh, the film is a murder mystery.
Says Abhay, “I play a PWD engineer named Satya Veer (S.V.) from a small town. But he has a passion for writing. He writes a detective novel called ‘Manorama’ but it flops. His dreams are shattered. But one day a lady called Manorama (played by Sarika) comes to him and praises his novel. S.V. is taken aback. Manorama is the wife of a politically strong person. She suspects that her husband is having an affair with someone so she comes to S.V. and says she wants him to find out if that is true – the way my detective does in the novel. How taking up this job lands S.V. in complicated situations, lies and deceits is what the film is about.”
Not first choice
The film was shot in 48 days in Rajasthan. Abhay admits that though he wanted to work with Navdeep whom he had known as a friend for long, but he was not the first choice for NavdeepAbhay was not the first choice. “Shemaroo came to me with this offer, but when Navdeep got to know that Shemaroo had signed me for it, he wasn’t very comfortable. But as we both were friends, Navdeep didn’t have much hassle either.”
Three films
Unlike others in the Deol clan, Abhay is different. He says he “would never run around trees”. he says. “At 31, I don’t want to do conventional roles. I am looking for off-beat scripts to work on. I know it is a difficult choice that may leave me with few options, but I can’t work in films I don’t relate with,” asserts AbhayFor now Abhay has three more films in his kitty. Junction, Dev D and Oye Lucky Oye Oye.
RANA SIDDIQUI
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