Ayushmann Khurrana: 5 times when he  shocked us

Ayushmann Khurrana is a trendsetter of an actor, not by choice . But because , well that’s how he is. The conventional doesn’t suit his temperament. Here are  his 5 career decisions which shocked us.

• He chose to begin his movie career with Vicky Donor,  about a guy who sells his semen in  small glass bottles to earn a living. “It could have finished me  off ,” recalls Ayushmann. The audience loved  his non-referential  act and called  him the  new Amol Palekar  which was wildly  incorrect. Palekar played the middleclass whitecollar worker. But he hardly ever played  an unconventional role.
• Ayushmann tried  more conventional roles in his next two films  Nautanki Saala and Bewakoofiyan. Audiences felt exactly that: the actor was doing nautanki  and  his attempts at playing the  conventional hero were just bewakofee.
• He quickly gravitated  to the  Mr Everyman role in Dum Laga Ke Haisha where he had to shoulder all the  weight, including that of the leading  lady Bhumi Pednekar who at that time weighed  more than Ayushmann. At the end of the film he had to run with Bhumi  on his shoulders. He never stopped running  thereafter, sometimes without a heroine (Article 15).
• Not all of Ayushmann’s  acclaimed films are as good as they are were initially made out to be. Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhaan and Dream  Girl were  not as calibre-conscious as  Bala and Section 15. It is  due to his  reputation  that  they were all accorded the same ‘If-it’s-Ayushmann-it’s-got-to-be-good’  status.
• After his latest Gulabo Sitabo it’s time for Ayushmann to rejuvenate his exemplary career.  If the film had opened in movie theatres  it would have flopped miserably. Calling a crashing bore by any other name would be doing it injustice.