The actor now wants to wear a director's hat...
He turned 41 on Wednesday and had spent the day shooting. "On my last birthday, I finished the shoot of Happy Bhag Jayegi, this birthday I'm starting a new movie. I couldn't have asked for better birthday gifts, two years in a row," Abhay Deol told Mumbai Mirror, who was hoping to wrap up the shoot by 8 pm as his friends had something planned. "I told them I could only tell them at 4 pm if I'd show up at my own party. I don't want to rush things because it's my birthday," he said.
Abhay is tight-lipped about his current movie, a crime-drama set in Delhi. "It has an interesting cast but we want to announce it at the right time. We started the shoot in Mumbai, after which we'd move to Delhi. Once I'm done with this film, I start shooting my next in July," is all he reveals, reports the tabloid.
An announcement of a sequel to his last release, Happy Bhag Jayegi has been made but Abhay says it's unlikely that he will be part of it. "It'll probably be about Happy running away again and finding some dude in another country. I was the champu in Part One, they will find another champu for Part Two," he laughs.
The dimpled actor also reveals that after turning actor, producer and distributor he may direct a film soon. "To be honest, I've never thought too deeply about direction in the past but I have been thinking about it lately. Being an actor, producer and distributor has now sparked off a desire in me to direct a film. For the first time I'm excited about venturing into direction at some point. Two years ago, I wouldn't have but now when the time is right, why not? I've developed scripts in the past, I wrote the treatment for Dev D. I need to start writing again. Maybe I can direct the movie based on my next idea," he said.
The 41-year-old recalls his past birthdays, confessing that he always planned on doing nothing on this day for the past 10 years. "But I have some good friends who made the day special. Last year I told Aanand L Rai that if he wanted me to work, I wanted to wrap up Happy Bhag Jayegi on March 15. He was happy to oblige and we had a wrap party that doubled up as my birthday party. This year I have a different excuse to party," he chuckled.
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