Abhay Deol has headed down South to foray into film production. He is collaborating with filmmaker Rathindran Prasad's production house, Whole Wide World Films, and B Ganesh's company, Common Man Presents, for a Tamil movie titled Idhu Vedhalam Sollum Kathai in which he plays a pivotal role. It's an action adventure, also toplining Ashwin Kakamanu and Guru Somasundaram, and will be shot like a spaghetti Western in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana.

The film, Prasad's debut feature, has characters Vikram and Betaal but it's not based in King Vikramaditya's time. Ashwin plays a video game designer who creates a game called, The Ghoul Hunter based on Vikram-Betaal's stories. The game comes to life and takes him on a rollercoaster ride. Abhay plays King Vikramaditya in a flashback, the only time the film travels to the bygone era.

The plot goes like this: Vikram is the metaphor for the self and Betaal for the mind. The game is about the self winning over the mind, a battle that each one of us braves in our day-to-day lives.