SANDHYA IYER INTERVIEWS ABHINAY DEO

he’s the talented second son of veteran Marathi actors, Ramesh and Seema Deo, who one will recollect made an endearing couple in Anand. It was his Marashtrian roots, he says, that made him doubly keen to hold a press conference in Pune, though Sarah Jane who was supposed to accompany him could not make it due to a sudden vertigo attack. Affable and warm, the director took questions patiently and tactfully, alternating between Marathi and English.

It wasn’t Game, however, that Abhinay was supposed to debut with. It was Aamir Khan’s Delhi Belly that he directed first, but the film got delayed and meanwhile Abhinay got started on his second film. “I actually signed Game first, but Delhi Belly shooting happened soon after. The first cut was ready. But Aamir had had two other films – Dhobi Ghat and Peepli Live which he had look into, so it took time. Meanwhile, I shot Game. Earlier, both Delhi Belly and Game were supposed to release in quick succession with hardly a month’s gap. But we decided, Delhi Belly is a youth-oriented film and this would not be the right time to release it. It now releases in July,” says the filmmaker, who also did his architecture before venturing into the ad world.

Game, he describes as an edge-of-the-seat murder mystery, with interesting twists and turns. He agrees that whodunnits aren’t exactly condusive in today times of intense social networking with smses and twitter flying around all the time. “That’s true and I hope the twitter world won’t spoil it for us. But more than who the killer is, the journey that leads upto this is equally interesting. There are many twists and turns, and obviously that can’t be enjoyed unless you see the film,” he smiles. “As for why we don’t make enough thrillers. That’s because our industry thrives on second viewings. Why would you watch a film after knowing who the killer is. The penny has dropped, so what’s the interest? But Game is different because the journey is as much fun.”

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