SPOILER ALERT for those who have not seen the film “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui.” Bollywood A-lister Ayushmann Khurrana headlines the cast of transgender-themed romance “Chandigarh K…
headlines the cast of transgender-themed romance “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui,” which is currently on release worldwide.
“We need to see this film from an Indian perspective, where the society is very complex,” Khurrana told. “Indians in general, they don’t even know the meaning of trans. They have no idea that, if you feel like a girl and if you’re born in a boy’s body, you can actually become a girl – they’re alien to this subject.”
Khurrana is well familiar with the transgender community as the school that he went to, St. John’s High School in Chandigarh, helps transgender students. And Panjab University, Chandigarh, where the star did a master’s degree was one of the first Indian universities to install separate toilets for transgender people., a filmmaker known for telling sensitive stories within a commercial milieu including “Rock On!!” , “Kai Po Che” and “Kedarnath” .
“Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” is the latest film in which Khurrana does not play a conventional Bollywood hero. Khurrana has made a point of playing diverse characters, and each of them have been box-office successes. These include playing a sperm donor in 2012’s “Vicky Donor”; a man who suffers from erectile dysfunction in 2017’s “Shubh Mangal Savdhan”; an alopecia sufferer in 2019’s “Bala”; and an out and proud gay man in “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” .