Ayushmann Khurrana – An actor who gracefully disgraced himself

There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance despite the fact that the two are actually poles apart. The Hindi film industry seems to be suffering from the latter. It thinks that it has found the success mantra without ending its propaganda and anti-Hindu agenda. For profiteering, it has started to commercialise those genres which it earlier used to ignore or blatantly denied those subjects.

For example, it has tried to nefariously capitalise the feeling of patriotism, nationalism and cultural resurgence in the country. The increased number of releases like Toilet – Ek Prem Katha, Mission Mangal, Samrat Prithviraj and Satyamev Jayate series among others are not a result of change of heart rather reflects the changed sinister business plan.

Why Sinister? In many of these genres, Bollywood has only exploited these subjects and pushed its agenda in it. Gunjan Saxena is an apt example of how Bollywood ruined the subject. It clearly lacked the intention to do justice with the subject and lacked intense research needed for making that film.

Is Ayushmann Khurrana exploiting the off-beat and stigmatised issues?

Certain Bollywood “stars” have made a cut out for themselves and don’t want to do extensive work on research for writing engaging screenplays. Directors have been releasing loads of bunkum in the name of Bhaigiri style and massy entry of Salman Khan or Patriotic movie of Akshay Kumar. It seems that Ayushmann Khurrana who off late is throwing tantrums and attitude like “stars” have started to exploit and commercialise his risk taking image.

Recently, his new movie Doctor-G has hit the theatre screen on 14th of October. The movie includes Ayushmann Khurrana, Rakul Preet and Shefali Shah in the lead roles.

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The story revolves around a medical student Dr Uday Gupta played by Ayushmann Khurrana. He wishes to get into Orthopaedics as his medical branch in his PG. But he failed to do so and joined Gynaecology which is better than Pathology as per his mother. He is an odd man out among the batch full of girls. Initially he gets bullied by them but later on goes to befriend Dr Fatima played by Rakul Preet.

Unhappy with his branch, he fails to perform the smallest of tasks infuriating the senior doctor Nandini played on screen by Shefali Shah. The plot then revolves around how he progresses as a gynac and his love-hate relationship with his medical branch.

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The movie is good in bits and pieces with decent humour but lacks an engaging screenplay. It fails to captivate the audience and loses the fizz in the second half. In the urge to shove the message down the mind of audiences, the narration of the movie has messed up big time. It rushes into things and has failed to utilise the supporting star casts to their full potential.

The movie is a good example of style over substance. In the urge to showcase off-beat topics, the movie team forgot that stories should pass on the message, not the other way round. The movie is blatantly preachy and failed to stand tall on the entertainment barometer.

“A star in the making”

Actors’ like Manoj Vajpayee, Pankaj Tripathi and KK Menon are demonstrating the power of art and flawless acting skills. Whenever, they are asked about their status as stars they humbly dub themselves as actors who love their art and nothing else.

Contrary to that, Ayushmann Khurrana in many interviews has dubbed himself as “star” and gloated about “Stardom”.

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In an interview, Ayushmann said, “A lot of people undermine the status of a star; they say they prefer ‘actors’. But a star is an inborn MBA, a star is an inborn PR person, and has a lot of qualities that someone who is just an actor would not. To be a star is more difficult than to be an actor.”

In another interview to a bollywood media portal, he gloated about his ‘risk taking ability’. He called himself the bravest actor in the entire Hindi film industry that has not spared any character type untouched.

He said, “I think I’m the bravest of all. Whom should I name? Who can be called braver than me? What have I left that someone else could have done or thought of doing? So I’m the bravest.”

Arrogant about his choices of movies, he boasted, “I will go ahead with something quirky which other actors may think twice before taking it up. I have made a career out of it.”

He is one of the perfect examples of talent gone down the wrong path on account of suffering with wokeism. His last few films had more focus on sermonising and virtue signalling rather than story line. Rather than including the message in the story it served the subjects in the worst crude form possible and let down the audiences.

A dozen movies in his decade-long career clearly highlight a pattern. All these movies had the sole purpose of giving a message to the public. It will not be an exaggeration to say that he has taken it all by himself to cover all ongoing issues in the society. After which he may head to solve the problems of the galaxy or even beyond that.

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List of Ayushmann-starrer movies, pre and post Covid pandemic.

The list highlights a clear pattern. Post pandemic, his movies have failed to manage into the hit category. His post-pandemic releases have been failing to cross its investment.

Ayushmann started his career by playing the role of a sperm donor in his debut film Vicky Donor. Later on he has played the roles of a gay man in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020), a bald man in Bala (2019), a blind man in Andhadhun (2018), a telecaller having female voice in the Dream Girl (2019), a bodybuilder who loves a Trans-woman in Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui (2021) and an Intelligence officer in Anek (2022).

But in the urge of doing experiments, he has blown up the basic ingredient of movies, that is, storyline. The star has not realised the changing trend. Audience has seen through his pattern. They now prefer to understand the cause for themselves rather than suffer in the theatres for a movie which is preachy but lacks entertainment quotient and engaging storyline.

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