‘He Is A Liar And A Toxic Person’, Abhay Deol Lashes Out At His Dev D Director Anurag Kashyap

Actor Abhay Deol and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap worked together in the 2009 film Dev D. The film which was based on a modern-day take of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Devdas received positive reviews. A decade later, Anurag in an interview went on to give some explosive statements against Deol.

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Accusing him of misusing his star status during the shoot of Dev D, Anurag had hurled several allegations against the actor.

An excerpt from the interview found Kashyap quoting in a 2020 interview with Huffington Post, “He (Abhay) wanted to do artistic movies but also wanted the mainstream benefits. The benefits and luxuries of being a ‘Deol’. He would stay in a five-star hotel while the entire crew stayed in Paharganj for a film that was made on a very tight budget.”

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Abhay has now addressed the same and shared his strong thoughts against the filmmaker.

Deol told Mid-day, “Well, [Kashyap] went in public, and said a lot of lies about me.” For example? “One lie was that I demanded a [five-star] hotel room [during the shoot of Dev.D]. He had actually come up to me and said, ‘Listen you can’t stay with us, you are a Deol. So, I want to put you up in a hotel room.’ He literally told me that. What he told the press was that I demanded it.”

He continues, “So, there was clearly a lot going on at the time, which was not professional. I had my heart on my sleeve, and all that is great — but you get taken advantage of, and then you get reactive. So, he [Kashyap] was a good lesson for me. Then I just avoided him, because I don’t need toxic people in my life. Life is too short, and there is so much more to explore. But he (Kashyap) is definitely a liar and a toxic person. And I would warn people [about] him.”

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Abhay also revealed that after the 2020’s interview spread like wildfire, Anurag sent him apology texts.

Deol said “I don’t look in the past. When Anurag said that crap about me in public, he sent me ‘apology’ messages. He does that all the time. He was like, ‘You want to shout at me, scream at me…’ And I was like, ‘I don’t care. It’s been 12 years. You don’t feature in my thoughts even now; get over it.”

Kashyap had said, ‘Forgive me, because I have had a bad day. I said you are forgiven. I never had a personal agenda. It was far bigger than just me. That is how I feel about everything. How much of this is he going to do? And I would have never taken his name and said the things, had he not gone public [either].”

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