When he saw the original movie, Abhay Deol said he found the subject interesting. His next Velle, backed by Bollywood superstar Ajay Devgn, is an adaptation of the 2019 Telugu crime-comedy Brochevarevarura. Something new is always a risk and I chose that path,” he told PTI in a Zoom interview. And commercial success can generally follow a formula that's why they (are) commercially successful, there's nothing new. It was never a numbers game, it was always a creative game,” Abhay Deol, who has also starred in the mainstream Hindi films like Aisha, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and Raanjhanaa, said.Īs long as his creativity was recognised, the actor said, he knew that he could get his next job.Ī post shared by Abhay Deol everybody as much as (needs) that commercial success, they also want that creative success. So, it was more to try, not that I wanted success not so much.
“I wanted to do well enough for me to continue making films I wanted to make, which nobody was making at the time when I started. It is not a secure industry you could be up one day and gone the next (day)”.
“We are working in a field where it is not nine-to-five that what you deliver eventually dictates what you will get coming into the future. Abhay Deol has walked on a road less travelled in Hindi cinema and the actor says it was important for him to achieve "creative" satisfaction over "commercial success".Ĭourtesy his unconventional choices right from his debut Socha Na Tha to films like Manorama Six Feet Under, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye, Dev D, and Shanghai, he was touted as the poster boy of indie cinema when he entered Bollywood 16 years ago.