Ayushmann Khurrana

Ayushmann Khurrana came out of radio and television hosting, won a reality show, and then built the single most distinctive niche of any leading man of his generation: the small-town everyman film that takes on a social taboo and somehow turns it into a hit. Sperm donation in Vicky Donor was only the start.

Erectile issues, a late-in-life pregnancy, caste violence, body image, he has made bankable comedies and dramas out of subjects the industry usually avoids entirely, and picked up a National Award for Andhadhun along the way. It is a genuinely unusual career, a movie star who looks and sounds like the audience rather than above it.

Married to the writer-director Tahira Kashyap, he is a familiar, easygoing presence for the paparazzi around Mumbai. Our cameras find him a friendly subject.

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