| Cast: |
Kamal
Haasan, Raveena Tandon
|
| Director: |
Suresh
Krishna |
| Producer: |
Kalaippuli
S. Thanu |
There’s
no
denying the fact that Kamal Haasan is amongst the
most versatile actors on the Indian screen. In ABHAY,
the actor has tried to attempt something that he had
not attempted in his career before. He enacts a double
role, but with a difference!
Although
Kamal has attempted dual roles in over fifteen films,
this one is different. ABHAY revolves around sibling
rivalry. It is about two people with similar faces,
but divergent beliefs. We hope to peel the layers
and get into the psyche of the two important characters.
That’s where the true challenge for me as the
writer and actor lies, Kamal tells me.
The
seeds 
of
the story of ABHAY were sown almost seventeen years
ago. The idea of the film is inspired by a novel I
had written while shooting for a film, which was later
serialised by a newspaper. Of course, we have altered
the story to an extent, keeping the changing times
and current tastes of the viewers in mind. But the
quintessence remains the same, Kamal divulges.
ABHAY
is a thriller set in Delhi.
The
season is winter. Major Vijay Kumar (Kamal Haasan)
is all set to marry his newscaster girlfriend Tejaswani
(Raveena Tandon).
Vijay
Kumar has a demented brother Abhay (Kamal Haasan),
who had been an inmate of a few mental asylums for
the past 22 years. The asylum authorities turned down
many attempts made by his family, requesting for the
release of the patient, since they thought that Abhay
was unfit and probably dangerous.
And
then
Vijay makes the grave mistake of going to the asylum
to meet his twin brother to say sorry for not being
able to get him out. Vijay and Tejaswini don’t
know that they are responsible for unleashing hell
in Delhi and in their own lives.
Abhay,
like his name, is fearless. A mind with no draping
of etiquette or civic behaviour. The human mind at
its most naked form.
