- Nephew of Dharmendra.
- Cousin of Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.
- His father Kanwar Ajit Singh ( Ajit Singh Deol) and his first cousin Veerendra married two sister's on the same day Ajit to Usha and Veerendra to Pammi.Usha and Pammi are sister's.
- It was Abhay Deol who approached filmmaker Anurag Kashyap with the concept of Dev D, based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Devdas. The film with its strong female characters turned out to be one of the most successful art-house movies of its time.
- In an interview, he said he had four professions in mind: acting, painting, philosophy and journalism. He chose acting.
- His #makingwhatbollywouldnt got him thousands of eyeballs both favourable and unfavourable on social media where he regularly takes up issues that Bollywood wouldn't want you to see or talk about like wage gap, sexism, nepotism, lobbying, 'familyfare' awards etc.
- Abhay Deol said in an interview with Rediff that he didn't get into acting because of his famous cousins but that he was involved in theatre in school.
- His father is Ajit Singh Deol.
- Father used the screen name Kanwar Ajit Singh during his acting career.
- His father acted using the screen name Kanwar Ajit Singh.
- Abhay chose a novel way of protesting against malpractices of the music production houses when he arrived at an award function with a swollen black eye in 2014.
- Abhay Deol has set up his own production house based in Surrey, British Columbia,Canada, 'Bliss Point Entertainment' to make global films. His first film under this banner is a horror flick by the name The Son. He has started this company with actor Jagdarshan Samra's son Vik Samra. Vik is married to actor Paintal's daughter Mitasha.
- He is also on the Advisory board of the Bandra Film Festival powered by Filmkaravan in collaboration with Youtube.
- Sister Veerta is married to actor,now Realtor, Rammi Dhillon (Bhupendra).
- Saurabh Shukla was directing a film which got shelved " Kuch Dil Ne Kaha" Starring Abhay Deol,directed by Saurabh Shukla and produced by Ajay Tuli. Saurabh got busy with acting assignments Hansal Mehta was approached. The film was eventually shelved.This was in 2001.
- Starred in the shelved movie "Snafu"(2014) Starring Abhay Deol, Puja Gupta,Manjot Singh, Produced by Dolly Gadhoke, Directed by Sethu Sriram.
- Starred in shelved movie Navdeep Singh's "Basra" (2009). Starring Akshaye Khanna,Fardeen Khan,Madhavan, Chitrangada Singh,Shahana Goswami. Music by Kailash Kher, Produced by Nikhil Advani. Madhavan was then replaced by Emraan Hashmi. The film went thru delays and Akshaye and Emraan both opted out. Fardeen also left the film. Abhay Deol was then signed for Akshaye's role and Nikhil Dwivedi for Emraan's role. Abhay was also to produce the film. After further financial problems, the film was finally shelved.
- Cousin Vijayta Deol's daughter is author Prerna Gill. She wrote the novel "The Shepherds Lies".
- Abhay Deol's father Ajit Singh Deol was to debut with the screen name "Abhay" in 1965. The film was to be titled "Chillman". He later decided upon the screen name Kuwar Ajit and chose "Abhay" for his son's name.
- Akshaye Khanna signed Navdeep Singh's" Basra" (2009). Co starring Madhavan, Chitrangada Singh,Shahana Goswami. Madhavan was then replaced by Emraan Hashmi. The film went thru delays and Akshaye and Emraan both opted out. Abhay Deol was then signed for Akshaye's role and Nikhil Dwivedi for Emraan's role. Abhay was also to produce the film. After further financial problems, the film was finally shelved.
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