Ayushmann Khurrana - Film Companion

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What Would A Bollywood Remake Of The Big Bang Theory Look Like?

Posted on September 15, 2020September 16, 2020
by Prathyush Parasuraman

With F.R.I.E.N.D.S, The Office, and Everybody Loves Raymond adapted into Hindi shows (albeit with limited success), an adaptation of The Big Bang Theory isn’t a stretch. Here are our picks if such a moment were to come

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When Ayushmann Khurrana and Zoya Akhtar Discussed Movies And The Acting Life

Posted on September 14, 2020
by Team FC

A throwback to the time they exchanged notes on film choices, scripts and roles for men

Shoojit Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo On Amazon Prime: The (Too) Carefully Curated Mood Feels Tonally Off With This Material

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Thoughts On Shoojit Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo On Amazon Prime

Posted on June 25, 2020
by Baradwaj Rangan

The film feels like an anecdote stretched into a novel. By the end, the loose plot does come together, but it doesn’t feel like it’s been worth this kind of build-up.

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Director Shoojit Sircar On The Scene-Stealing Women Of Gulabo Sitabo

Posted on June 17, 2020June 19, 2020
by Gayle Sequeira

The director talks about finding the right women to play the 95-year-old Begum and the fiery Guddo, and what his favourite scenes with them are

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Gulabo Sitabo Is A Cat-and-Mouse Comedy That’s Cleverer Than Appears

Posted on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020
by Rahul Desai

Greed drives all the characters of Shoojit Sircar’s film, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana

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Gulabo Sitabo On Amazon Prime Video Is Slyly Funny But Also Deeply Melancholic

Posted on June 12, 2020June 11, 2020
by Anupama Chopra

Shoojit Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana, leaves you with a smile and an ache. And that’s a rare combination.

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When Ayushmann Khurrana Lived Illegally In A Medical Hostel During His Early Mumbai Days

Posted on April 23, 2020May 13, 2020
by Team FC

Ayushmann Khurrana spoke to Anupama Chopra about the various life experiences that have shaped him as an actor – one of them being the time he lived illegally in Mumbai’s KEM hospital hostel for 2 months

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Hitesh Kewalya On Making Amitabh Bachchan A Queer Icon

Posted on February 25, 2020May 13, 2020
by Gayle Sequeira

Films can’t change people, all they can do is become conversation starters, says the writer-director

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Download The Script Of Bala

Posted on January 21, 2020May 14, 2020
by Team FC

Written by Niren Bhatt and starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Yami Gautam and Bhumi Pednekar, Bala captures the argumentative affection of joint families, our obsession with Bollywood and Tik Tok and the small-town flavour of Kanpur

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My Movie Diary: A Film Companion Roundtable With 8 Of The Decade’s Best Actors

Posted on November 26, 2019May 20, 2020
by Anupama Chopra

Last week, we recorded our largest adda yet – with actors Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Ayushmann Khurrana, Manoj Bajpayee, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Vijay Deverakonda and Vijay Sethupathi

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Bala Movie Review: A Boring, Sputtering Sermon

Posted on November 8, 2019May 9, 2020
by Prathyush Parasuraman

What could have been inventive, ends up becoming formulaic asserting of armchair progressive values

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Bala Movie Review: Fun In Places, Flat In Others

Posted on November 8, 2019May 9, 2020
by Anupama Chopra

There is enough to enjoy here and yet the film doesn’t land as it is simplistic and on-the-nose

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