Abhay is an actor who has never shied away from speaking his mind; a producer who doesn’t believe in the ‘formula’, a film curator with a keen eye for detail and good stories, a painter who’s not scared to experiment with colours and a philanthropist who wishes to leverage his position to bring a positive change in society. Well, that’s in short Abhay Deol, if only the versatile actor could fit in boxes.Despite coming from the most-filmy family of Bollywood- the Deols, Abhay is a man of few words who lets his work and films do the talking bit. You may call him non-conformist but Abhay’s panache of portraying complex characters is matched by very few in the cinema world as evident from his filmography that includes films like Dev D, Raanjhana, Manorama six feet under, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Shanghai and Oye Lucky Lucky Oye.Whether it was acquainting Sunny Deol to Imtiaz Ali for his debut Socha Na Tha, raising funds for Manorama Six Feet Under or giving Anurag Kashyap the idea to give Devdas a contemporary twist in Dev.D, Abhay always went beyond the traditional responsibilities of an actor even in the early days of his career.Despite his success with films that have been termed “art-house”” and “”off beat””, Abhay – right from his first shot has continually balanced and found success both with artistic/indie cinema as well as hugely successful Bollywood blockbusters.He has consistently taken chances with debutante directors from the start of his career. Be it Imtiaz Ali, Reema Kakdi or Navdeep Singh, just to name a few. He’s also carried the freedom, and his penchant for going against the grain, into his work as a producer – backing newcomers and new storylines. With a huge fan-following across the globe, Abhay has always stood for the cause of parallel cinema, which is one of the reasons he became a film curator. He also ventured into the digital medium with Chopsticks and Line of Descent, apart from stepping into Tamil cinema with Hero and Idhu Vedhalam Sollum Kadhai. With a strong social media presence, Abhay is known to take a stand divergent to the rest of tinsel town’s herd opinions, which is what makes him ‘thinking women sex symbol.'”
Abhay Deol
Movies
Dev D
Dev who, after spurning Paro’s love due to a misunderstanding, turns to drugs and vodka for solace. Paro moves on but Dev still is in remorse. He meets Chanda, a prostitute with problems of her own. Dev likes her but his penchant for self-destruction prevents him and Chanda from truly…
Raanjhanaa
The pundit’s son Kundan (Dhanush) has fallen for the girl at first sight. That they’re both kids makes us dismiss it as a meaningless crush. But a few years later, the boy is still in love with the girl, Zoya (Sonam Kapoor). When she’s in school, he follows her around…
Ek Chalis Ki Last Local
Employed in Kurla in a Multinational Call Center where he is instructed to speak with an accent, Nilesh Rastogi misses the last 1:40 AM Kalyan-bound local-train to return home to Vikhroli. Asked to leave the platform by a Hawaldar, he goes looking for an alternate place to hang out until…
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Honeymoon Travels is an off-beat drama weaving together the stories of 6 couples on their honeymoons on the same tourist bus. There are old-timers Nahid & Oscar on their second marriages, reflective and forgiving of live. Then there’s the Gujrati couple Hitesh and Shilpa who can’t get anywhere near each…
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
Inspired by the incredible true story of Lucky Singh, an extremely charismatic and fearless confidence man and thief who socialized with the rich, famous and influential of Delhi society and then proceeded to rob them blind. He was the bête noire of the police and had stolen millions by the…
Zero
The story revolves around Bauua Singh (Shah Rukh Khan), a vertically challenged man, who is full of charm and wit, with a pinch of arrogance. Born to a wealthy family and raised in an environment of affluence and indulgence, Bauua was never failed by Meerut or its people. But when…
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Fun Facts
Nephew of Dharmendra.
Cousin of Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.
Abhay Deol said in an interview with Rediff that he didn't get into acting because of his famous cousins but that he was involved in theatre in school.
In an interview, he said he had four professions in mind: acting, painting, philosophy and journalism. He chose acting.
His father is Ajit Singh Deol.
Father used the screen name Kanwar Ajit Singh during his acting career.
His father Kanwar Ajit Singh ( Ajit Singh Deol) and his first cousin Veerendra married two sister's on the same day Ajit to Usha and Veerendra to Pammi.Usha and Pammi are sister's.
His father acted using the screen name Kanwar Ajit Singh.
Author Sarjit Singh Sandhu wrote a book about his father Ajit Singh Deol (Kanwar Ajit Singh). The books name is " Jeete Seete De Jatt Jaffe"". The book is written in Punjabi. The author's son Ajay Sandhu is close friends with the Deol family.He has posted several pictures of himself with the Deols on punjabiportal.com.
Abhay chose a novel way of protesting against malpractices of the music production houses when he arrived at an award function with a swollen black eye in 2014.
His #makingwhatbollywouldnt got him thousands of eyeballs both favourable and unfavourable on social media where he regularly takes up issues that Bollywood wouldn't want you to see or talk about like wage gap