Bong beauty Bipasha Basu has signed her first Hollywood film, ‘Singularity’, which also stars Abhay Deol in lead role. The film will be directed by English-French director Roland Joffe.
Bipasha met Roland Joffe at a hotel in Mumbai in September. The film is budgeted at $33 million, and is a tale of a love, set across two time periods and continents.
Bips confirmed the news saying, “I am very excited…but have to admit that I am also a little nervous. Everything happened really fast.”
The film is set in the backdrop of the First Anglo-Maratha War of the 18th century and describes four characters – a British officer in colonial India, an Indian woman he falls in love with, an American marine biologist and his researcher lover — who gets trapped in a wrecked British merchant ship.

Bollywood actor Abhay Deol, the youngest of the Deol family, has worked in more than a dozen of films, is yet to get an opportunity to work with his legendary uncle Dharmendra. He is also yet to be seen with his star cousins Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.

The actor has already spent five years in the industry but he is still waiting for a perfect script to work with his family members. Abhay was quoted saying that he is very keen to work with his brothers and uncle but it is very hard to get the right script for bringing them together.

Recently, the actor has started trying his hands in developing scripts and is expecting to write one to accommodate all of them. Abhay informed that he has penned down many synopses and treatments, which are required to be developed into scripts yet. The actor added that he thinks of the script and then fit the actors into them as feels it works out better.

However, Abhay said that he feels very nervous when he is in front of his uncle so acting as someone else, is something very tough for him. But still he is looking for a role, which he has never done before.

Having already proven his acting mettle in movies like “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!” and “Dev D”, Punjabi boy Abhay Deol will now show his driving skills in his latest outing “Road, Movie” – he drives a 1940s Chevy truck in the movie.

“I like driving. I am a very confident driver so I had no problems (driving the truck for the movie). I could do it straightaway on the first day. I didn’t undergo any training. It’s the same as any other car. It’s just a truck and much bigger so you just have to be more careful,” Abhay told IANS.

“Sometimes the DP (Director of Photography) would ask me to do the stunts. She would ask me to park it in position because I had such good control over it by the end of it all. I had fun driving the truck around,” he added.

Directed by Dev Benegal, the film also stars Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee and debutant Mohammed Faizal Usmani.