He’s truly an ‘outsider’. Someone who’s part of showbiz and yet not of it. Someone who’s as familiar with the dazzle as with the dust. In his eight-year career, Ayushmann Khurrana has acquired a lifetime of learning. Thanks to both success and failure, pleasure and pain, which have kept him engaged simultaneously. Being a consummate artiste – he sees the poetry in it all. In the seduction of stardom and the reality beyond it. An avid believer in the Buddhist philosophy, it helps him find equilibrium in a world of extremes. Understanding the mind and the method of the monk, who’s at home with the movies…
WHAT ARE YOU DOING DURING THE LOCKDOWN?
I’ve been such a lazy lump of protoplasm during this lockdown. (Laughs) Forgive the biology. Actually, I was a student of biology. Samajh mein nahin aata hai ki thak kar sona hai yaa so kar thakna hai. So I’m confused. I sleep for seven and half hours during the night. The afternoon siesta is for an hour and a half. That makes it around 9 to 10 hours of sleep. I feel redundant. I wonder if I’ll be able to work after the lockdown. I’ve become used to just lazing around. I surface around 4.30 pm. I feel energetic after that. Before that I’m cranky. (Smiles) I may even strike someone with something.
AREN’T YOU COOKING ANYTHING LIKE THE OTHERS?
Khana khane se fursat milti hi nahi. I can’t cook. When I first came to Mumbai, I’d brought my cook along. I was living in a 1BHK flat. My cook used to share it with me. I can live without a girlfriend or wife. But I can’t live without a cook.
ARE YOU BEING A PAIN TO YOUR WIFE TAHIRA (KASHYAP)?
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