Ayushmann Khurrana’s Risk-Taking Decade in Films: ‘Bollywood Didn’t Know What To Do With Me’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran April 20, 2022 marks exactly a decade since Ayushmann Khurrana, Bollywood’s biggest and most successful thematic risk taking actor, debuted in the film industry.
Ten years ago today (April 20, 2012) is when Khurrana debuted with “Vicky Donor,” in which he played a sperm donor. Starting from then, he has made a point of playing diverse characters, and each of them have been box-office successes.
These include playing a man who suffers from erectile dysfunction in “Shubh Mangal Savdhan” (2017); an alopecia sufferer in “Bala” (2019); an out and proud gay man in “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” (2020) and a macho gym instructor who finds out that his fiancée used to be a man and has undergone gender reassignment surgery in “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” (2021).
While these roles obviously fly in the face of traditional Bollywood macho stereotypes, Khurrana’s other role choices have also been unusual by the industry’s mainstream standards.
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