"Bala is the most collaborative film I've done", says Ayushmann Khurrana

When reminded that Bala is his eighth consecutive hit Ayushmann quickly corrects me that it is his seventh hit in a row. Well, to that illustrious list we can safely add Shubh Mangal Zyaada Savdhaan which opens on February 14, 2020. This young unassuming actor is breaking the records of yesteryears’ superstars Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan who had an uninterrupted stream of hits.

 

"Bala is the most collaborative film I've done", says Ayushmann Khurrana

 

Laughs Ayushmann, “I never thought of it this way. My focus is on doing the kind of films which haven’t been attempted before. I never thought I was going to break records. I was choosing from the films that were being offered to me. I did the films that I did because I had no other choices. I never set out to be a non-conformist leading. Let me tell you, I loved singing and dancing in Dream Girl.”

 

Bala is a far superior work to Dream Girl, far better written directed and acted. Does Ayushmann agree? “I remember I was so moved by the story I hugged the director. I don’t know if Bala is my best film to date. But it is certainly my most collaborative effort. The director Amar Kaushik and I were constantly exchanging notes, working out character-defining details. I made the suggestion about my character being a Shah Rukh Khan fan since I can mimic SRK very comfortably,” says Ayushmann.

 

Ayushmann lost a killer amount of weight to play Bala. “That wasn’t hard. I just had to cut down on meat. We wanted Bala to be on the back foot not only because of his baldness but also because of the other issues that he has in life.”

 

Before the release of Bala, the film got itself into a controversy over a plagiarism issue involving a writer who claimed Bala was his story. “That was so uncalled for. I never saw that coming. I had been offered several films on baldness. I chose the script that I liked the best. What was so wrong about that? There are so many films on the theme of baldness. Some time ago there was a film called Gone Kesh. There is Bengali and Oriya film on the theme too. There can’t be any copyright on baldness. Even my Bala director Amar Kaushik is bald.”

 

Ayushmann describes the whole ugly plagiarism controversy as a learning experience. “I got to know so much about human nature. The experience taught me to be more careful in my dealings with others.”

 

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