In an earlier film, Ayushmann played a gay man who is trying to bring a change in his boyfriend’s family. They are themselves the only ones who can do that but I am just trying to aid a conversation,” he shared.Īyushmann Khurrana has often been associated with movies that belong to the road less travelled. I am not claiming to be the voice of the trans people. His research aside, Abhishek stressed that with this film he is just trying to “aid a conversation”.
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I think that comes from the pain they have been through and the journey they have been through to make that progression,” he said.Īlso Read | Ayushmann Khurrana recalls working in ‘three not so good films’, says he ‘didn’t have the power’ to do anything That level of awareness is very elevated. “Even spiritually, they are so much more elevated than regular people because they are people who totally understand the cis community and they can understand how they feel but they are so aware of their own feelings as to how they want them to be handled and who they want to be. When you talk to someone, you have to talk to them in their language.” When asked if any other transgender people were associated with the making of the film, the director shared that he met a lot of transgender people during the writing stage.Ībhishek shared that he found transgender people to be more “evolved” because of the “journey they have had”. You have to reach out to people at large by taking the story to them and I thought this is the best way to take this story there. Eventually, there is a representation by an individual actor but I try to see above this because there is a story to be told. Films are not made by actors, they are made by filmmakers and writers. Why is it that everything is legitimised by an actor? Why can’t a trans person write the film? Why can’t a trans person direct the film? First of all, this fascination is incorrect. He shared, “We went through many avenues and there was a thought about casting a trans person but you know I find everyone is so fascinated just by actors. We asked Abhishek Kapoor if there was ever a conversation about casting a transgender person in the lead role to which he replied in the affirmative. It is a serious condition that they go through.” The trailer of Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui suggested that Vaani Kapoor was playing a transgender character in the film. Right now, this is a phenomenon all over the world where people are recognising it, understanding it and making room to accept them. People who go through it know the kind of pain that they are going through. Most people cannot even comprehend that gender dysphoria is a huge thing. Sometimes you could be a different mind in a different body so it is a mind-bending thought. They take their life and their body so much for granted that they think that their mind and their body is one, but it is not. It is a very serious inner turmoil that the community goes through and when I started this research, I realised that this is far more difficult for people to even comprehend,” he said.Ībhishek added, “People who have not been through it, they have no idea about it. When you talk about the trans community, it is not like that at all. When we talk about lesbian, gay and bisexual, it is about what kind of sexual preferences you have, who do you get attracted to. LGB is one thing, but T is something totally different. The LGBTQ community is put in a group but they are very different. “There is a lot of thought that went into it.
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Abhishek shared that he feels the “responsibility” towards the community and added that this is not a film that he made “overnight” but rather took “several years to come to this draft of the script”. Mainstream Hindi cinema has shied away from LGBTQ stories but with Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui, Abhishek Kapoor has attempted to bring the story of a transgender person on screen. “The kind of chemistry they have, I thought that should be exciting enough for people to say ‘we like what’s happening here, let’s step into the theatre and see what’s going on’,” he said. And there is so much more in the film that we can say, can be more inviting.” Abhishek added that, in the trailer, they touched upon the look and feel of the film and also highlighted the chemistry between the lead pair – Ayushmann and Vaani. Hence we just kind of hinted about it but did not go all out. The subject and representation could be misunderstood and that could be very damaging to the film, and to the issue itself.
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“What happens is the trailer is of 2 minutes. The trailer of the film merely hinted at the larger subject of the film and Abhishek said that it was a conscious call so the audience feels curious.