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Personal life

Deol is in a romantic relationship with model/actress Preeti Desai^[8] and lives in Mumbai, where he also grew up. He is a self-described fan of "cinema that has the 'real' element" and lists his favourite films as Chupke Chupke, Mother India, and Dr. Strangelove.^[1]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
2005	Socha Na Tha	Viren Oberoi	Nominated, Filmfare Best Male Debut Award
2006	Ahista Ahista	Ankush
2007	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.	Aspi
	Ek Chalis Ki Last Local	Nilesh
	Manorama Six Feet Under	Satyaveer Singh
2008	Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!	Lucky	Movie won the National Award for Best Popular Film
2009	Dev.D	Dev	Movie won 6 Filmfare Awards in 2009
	Meridian Lines	Vijay
2010	Road, Movie	Vishnu	Special screening at the Toronto International Film Festival
	Aisha	Arjun Burman
2011	Singularity	Udaji	Post-production
	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	Kabir	Releasing on 15 July 2011
	Shanghai	Roy	Filming
	Neither the Veil Nor the Four Walls		Directed by Afia Nathaniel

References

1. ^ ^a b Patcy N (2 March 2005). "'Sunny bhaiyya loves soft toys!'". Rediff. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
2. ^ "Box Office 2007". Box Office India.com. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
3. ^ Nikhat Kazmi. "'Dev D Movie Review'". IndiaTimes.com. Retrieved 05 February 2009.
4. ^ Madhureeta Mukherjee (8 January 2010). "Ranbir is India's most desirable". Times of India. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
5. ^ "Abhay to launch action thriller". Mumbai Mirror. Times of India. 22 December 2009.
6. ^ Hiren Kotwani (14 December 2009). "Abhay Deol’s new moves". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
7. ^ Sharin Wader Butani (10 April 2010). "Abhay making a splash". Times of India. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
8. ^ "Abhay Deol-Abhay with girlfriend Preeti Desai". The Times of India. 2010-01-14.

Abhay Deol1

Abhay Deol (Hindi: अभय दियोल [əˈbʱəj d̪ɪˈjoːl], Punjabi: ਅਭੇ ਦੇਓਲ; born 15 March 1976) is an Indian actor originally from Chandigarh, Punjab. He is an Indian film actor and producer whosefamily has a long history in the Hindi film industry. Deol has appeared in such films as Dev.Dand Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!. He is the nephew of Bollywood actor Dharmendra, and the cousin of Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.

Career

Deol stated in an interview with Rediff that he is not into acting because of his father, but because he was involved in theatre since school. "At 18, I decided to take the plunge. It took me 10 years because I didn't want to leave my education to get into films."^[1]

He made his film debut in the 2005 film Socha Na Tha. His second film was Ahista Ahista in 2006. His first 2007 release was Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. which had a multi-star cast and emerged as a box office success.^[2] His second release for the year was Ek Chalis Ki Last Local. His third film in 2007 was Manorama Six Feet Under, which won the Best Film at theMahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York City. He also won Best Actor award for his role for the same. His only 2008 release was Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!.

Deol devised and enacted the title role of Devdas in the 2009 Hindi film Dev.D. Nikhat Kazmi, the critique for Times of India gave the movie a perfect 5 out 5 stars in his review.^[3]

Deol has been the cover of Man's World and Time Out Mumbai, with titles such as "the new face of Indian cinema". He was placed seventh on Zoom's "50 Most Desirable Hotties" poll for 2009.^[4]

He did Road, Movie with Tannishtha Chatterjee. Deol has also started producing films through his company Forbidden Films. For Basra, the first film under his new production company,^[5] Deol learned the Israeli martial art Krav Maga.^[6] He also trained to be a deep-sea diver for his film Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara which was filmed in Spain.^[7]