Abhay Deol

Abhay Deol is a popular new age Indian actor acclaimed for his performance in National Film Award winning ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’. Abhay Deol is considered as one of the most promising and bankable actors of the Indian film industry. Abhay Deol’s average looks and an impeccable charisma has made him as one of the hottest male actors of Bollywood.

Abhay Deol was born on 15th march, 1976 in Mumbai into the well known Deol family. Bollywood He-Man Dharmendra is his uncle and the dream girl Hema Malini is his aunt. His cousins Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol and Esha Deol are established actors. Abhay Deol decided to join films when he was eighteen owing to his keen interest in theatre. However he completed his education and made his acting debut in the year 2005 in Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Socha Na Tha’ opposite Ayesha Takia. The film did reasonably well at the box office and Abhay Deol’s performance was well received. His next film ‘Ahista Ahista’ written by Imtiaz Ali and directed by Shivam Nair won critical acclaim and Abhay became a well known face.

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Abhay Deol starred alongside Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Amisha Patel, Kay Kay Menon, Raima Sen, Minisha Lamba, Ranvir Shorey, Dia Mirza and Arjun Rampal in Reema Kagti’s ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.’. He was later seen in ‘Ek Chalis Ki Last Local’ opposite Neha Dhupia. Abhay Deol was seen in a completely different avatar in Navdeep Singh’s ‘Manorama Six Feet Under’, a story of an amateur detective alongside Raima Sen and Gul Panag.

Abhay Deol’s breakthrough performance was seen in Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’ released in 2006. Produced by UTV, the film starred Abhay Deol, Neetu Chandra, Paresh Rawal, Manu Rishi, Richa Chadda, Manjot Singh and Archana Puran Singh. The film became a huge commercial as well as critical success. ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’ won several awards including the prestigious National Film Award for Best Popular Film, Filmfare Awards for Critics Award for Best Performance, Best Dialogue and Best Costumes, IIFA Best Dialogue Award, among others.

His next film ‘Dev D’- an unorthodox romantic drama film directed by Anurag Kashyap also became a huge success. ‘Dev D’ starred Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin and Mahi Gill in lead roles. The film was a contemporary adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas. The concept has earlier been used by filmmakers like P.C. Barua and Bimal Roy and more recently by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. However ‘Dev D’ was a completely unconventional film that is considered as one of the path breaking films in the Indian cinema as it portrays a more realistic side.

‘Dev D’ received six Filmfare Awards and was nominated at Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2009 at Queensland Australia. ‘Dev D’ was premiered at 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival held in Palm Springs, California. Abhay Deol was recently seen in Dev Benegal’s ‘Road, Movie’ alongside Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Satish Kaushik. ‘Road, Movie’ was premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and later at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Abhay Deol will soon be seen opposite Sonam Kapoor in Rajshree Ojha’s ‘Aisha’, produced by Sonam’s father Anil Kapoor and sister Rhea Kapoor. The film is supposedly is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s popular novel ‘Emma’. Abhay is also producing ‘Basra’ directed by Navdeep Singh. ‘Basra’ features stars Abhay Deol, Nikhil Dwivedi, Shahana Goswami, Soniya Mehra and Chitrangada Singh in pivotal roles.