 Following this, he featured in Abbas Burmawalla and Mustan Burmawalla's thriller, "Ajnabee", alongside Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar and Bipasha Basu.The film, adapted from the 1992 American thriller "Consenting Adults",
features Deol as Raj, the new husband of Priya Malhotra (Kapoor) who after moving to Switzerland and initially befriending their neighbours (Kumar and Basu), become entangled in a web of deceit and extra-marital activity.Ziya us Salaam of "The Hindu" was unconvinced with Deol's performance, remarking that he "only occasionally manages to transmit fear of the fugitive."