'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' chants Abhay Deol, recalls overt demotion at 'Familyfareawards'

Abhay Deol has broken his silence on ongoing debate on social media about nepotistic practices in film industry by citing his own experience of his superhit 2011 film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. film featured actors Abhay Deol, Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Katrina Kaif in lead roles. However, most of Bollywood awards minated Deol and Akhtar in Supporting Actor category, while Hrithik and Katrina were pitched for Leading Role category.

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In his latest Instagram update, Abhay Deol, kwn for his unfiltered and honest opinions, spoke about how film industry lobbies against actors in many ways. He stated that according to industry’s logic, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was a love story of a boy and a girl instead of being a story about life and friendship. Hitting out at awards shows by calling m 'familyfareawards', Abhay Deol said that he takes title 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' quite seriously se days.

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Sharing a still from movie, he wrote, "I would like to mention that almost all award functions demoted me and Farhan from main leads, and minated us as “supporting actors”. Hrithik and Katrina were minated as “actors in a leading role”. So by industry’s own logic, this was a film about a man and a woman falling in love, with man supported by his friends for whatever decisions he takes."

Abhay Deol ended up skipping award season entirely, although Farhan Akhtar didn't. "re are many covert and overt ways in which people in industry lobby against you. In this case, it was shamelessly overt," he wrote, "I of course boycotted awards but Farhan was ok with it."

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Abhay Deol has joined likes of actors Kangana Ranaut, Vivek Oberoi, Raveena Tandon who have blatantly pointed out unfair practices within film industry which has often led to discourment of emerging talents. This outbreak is an outcome of  probe into possible reasons for tragic death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput on Sunday, June 14. 

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