Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap and actor collaborated for the 2009 film 'DevD' which was a successful collaboration. However, the two drifted apart due to differences. Both, Abhay and Anurag have been vocal about their sour relationship in the past.
In an interview for Mid-day's Sit with Hitlist last year, Deol, opened up about his falling-out with Kashyap, over the latter’s scathing words in a 2020 interview. Kashyap had called working with the actor “a painfully difficult” experience. He had said that Deol wanted to do artistic movies but also wanted the mainstream benefits—the luxuries of being a “Deol”.
ADVERTISEMENT Talking about his fallout with Kashyap, Deol said, “[Kashyap] went in public, and told a lot of lies about me. One 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.” "I saw a person who was a really close friend at the time. I wasn't understanding what was going on and I was very easily manipulated at that time.
So he was a good lesson for me to learn. I don't need toxic people in my life. Life's too short, and there's so much more to explore.
But he's definitely a liar, he's a toxic person, and I would warn people of him," he added. Now, in a recent interview with Janice Sequeira, was asked about being bad a.
