"As an actor I want to do something that has never been seen before.. I want to try the zone that has never been tried by anyone. I want to surprise my audience with every film," he told PTI.
The actor, who has acted in unconventional movies like Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd, Dev D, Manorama Six Feet Under, Ek Chaalis Ki Last Local and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye intends to astonish the audience with Shanghai directed by Dibakar Banerjee, which goes on floors by March-April.
Abhay will be sharing screen with actor Emraan Hashmi in the political thriller, adapted from the book called 'Z' by Greek novelist Vassilis Vassilikos on the real-life assassination of a dynamic politician.
"The story dwells on how people are at the receiving end of politics. How the decisions taken by politicians affect a common man," the 34-year-old actor said.
"In this film I will be in a never seen character like before... it is a negative, cold, vicious character. We are still in the scripting process.
"Dibakar is one of the finest directors... I had the opportunity to work with in Oye Lucky.... I love the way he creates his own world through his scripts. He has a brilliant way of telling stories," Abhay said.
Abhay will next be seen in Zoya Akhtar's big budget multi-starrer Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara alongside Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin.
Asked if he is now looking for commercially successful films, the actor said, "This is the first time I am doing a film with an ensemble cast, who are all in the big league. I do films that I like. For me all films are commercial. The moment we say the film is non-commercial it means it does not do any commerce. Everybody makes a film for it to do well commercially."
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