'This is a movie made with this gaze fixed on its immediate well-wishers, while at the same time it squints hard looking for those swaying back and forth on the fence,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.
With four back to back hits, the shy lad from Chandigarh is an unlikely movie star. Ayushmann Khurrana tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com how it all came together and how he prepares to confront the toughest three months of his life.
Those who want their Bollywood music to have a dash of the 1990s will lap up the Junooniyat album with glee.
'When I started off the process for Kaabil, we were making the character sympathetic as he is blind.' 'Just looking at him and his environment, you would say, 'Arrey bechara'.' 'But meeting blind people, I realised there is no essence of helplessness in them.'
'The most difficult thing in the world is to convince someone to put Rs 20 crore on your movie script.'
'I felt sick shooting Bala because I think I was under extreme stress. Extreme, extreme stress.'
'I pray to god that nothing like that happens again in our country so that we are forced to make something like Uri again.'
Shoojit Sircar takes Rediff.com's Ronjita Kulkarni behind the sets of October, and right inside his beautiful mind.
'He resonates more with the youth which is always something brands want.'
'We need more universal films like Dangal, Sultan or Padmavat that work across single screens and multiplexes.'
'The biggest success of Andhadhun is that viewers are thinking and debating about it. I didn't expect it,' Sriram Raghavan tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com.
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