Before Ayushmann Khurana Many Big Actors Said 'No' To Vicky Donor!!
Did you know that before Ayushmann Khurrana, famous actors told Vicky Donor, "absolutely no"?
Oct 29, 2023, 20:01 IST
Vicky Donor marked Ayushmann Khurrana and Yami Gautam's Bollywood debuts. Nevertheless, the playwright disclosed that numerous actors turned down the main part.
2012 saw Ayushmann Khurrana make his Bollywood debut with the drama-comedy Vicky Donor. Shoojit Sircar directed the movie, which also included Yami Gautam's feature film debut. Its author, Juhi Chaturvedi, recently participated in the O Womaniya conversation about gender disparity in Bollywood. She mentioned how many actors had turned it down.
The writer of Vicky Donor discloses that every actor turned down Vicky Donor.
Several Bollywood celebrities recently participated in the O Womaniya conversation for Film Companion to talk about gender discrimination in the business. When the topic of reasonable male characters in films came up, Juhi Chaturvedi talked about Vicky Donor and Piku, two characters she had written.
She claimed she was unsure of the number of performers working now who would accept a part similar to that of Rana (Irrfan Khan, Piku). The explanation, which she said, is that it's a little role. They do not experience that level of glory from it. However, Irrfan did it." Juhi went on to say that we respect an actor's decision when we look back.
She went on to say that every major actor had turned down Ayushmann Khurrana's film Vicky Donor. "Even for Vicky Donor, honestly, everybody, all big actors, had said absolute no to it," she stated. Ayushmann and Yami Gautam were eventually chosen for the movie.
Vicky Donor is directed by Shoojit Sircar and written by Juhi Chaturvedi. It examined the procedure of sperm donation and was a huge commercial and critical success.
Vikramaditya Motwane discussed the issue of gender disparity.
Director Vikramaditya Motwane discussed the need for more female-led films in the same interview. He questioned why women couldn't play the lead roles in films, bringing up Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan. Why does Deepika not have the lead role in Pathaan? How come? Not Sure Why Not? Is there no way a movie about a woman? Not at all? And I believe that producers and studios in particular ought to start promoting that," he asked.
Professionally speaking, Aayushmann was most recently seen in the highly successful comedy Dream Girl 2. However, Juhi is the author of films like October, Gulabo Sitabo, Vicky Donor, and Piku.