Abhay Deol is serious about taking a sabbatical from Mumbai and continue taking art courses in New York, looking to work with great scriptwriters, and find out how he should handle his movie career.Right now he is excited about two of his films that are to open soon -- Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! and Dev D, a modern version of the tragic Devdas legend; he gets the script concept credit for the latter film directed by Anurag Kashyap.
"I am still getting used to New York and navigating through the city," he says. We ask him about the screen story he is writing. "I cannot go into many details just now," he says. "The writer I have in mind to turn the story into a script is very well known. I don't know if he will be convinced to work with me."
"I will then have to decide what I am going to do with my career," Abhay 31, who has had six films including Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Limited released in two years, says. "And that is why I decided to live far from Mumbai and check out my options. If you are in Mumbai and tell people that you want to take a few months off, nobody will want to take you seriously."
"I have many reasons to feel happy about this film," he says. "For one thing, it is made by a very big banner, and it is the first time I am working for a big company."
The new film, Oye Lucky, has plenty of black humour, it is inspired by the true story of a charismatic and gutsy confidence man and thief
"Another reason I took up this film was because I got an opportunity to work with a director (Dibakar Banerjee) who has done something," Abhay continues, referring to the small budget Khosla Ka Ghosla which became a runaway hit.
"I surely want my films play across the board, in the big cities, in smaller towns, in multiplexes and single screen theatres," he says. "I may choose to work with a particular director for a number of reasons, and the promise the script shows. But it surely does not mean that I am thinking only of a particular kind of audience. Oye Lucky, I feel, could be one such film that will engage the audiences across the country."
