Ayushmann Khurrana Unpacks Success of ‘Dream Girl 2’: ‘It’s My Most Commercial Film Till Now’ (EXCLUSIVE)
31.08.2023 - 13:51
/ variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana has scored the biggest opening of his career with comedy “Dream Girl 2” and the film is on its way to becoming a major hit. Khurrana stars as Karam, a young man in Mathura whom financial circumstances force to pose as a woman, Pooja, and the mayhem that ensues.
The film, directed by Raaj Shaandilyaa and written by Shaandilyaa and Naresh Kathooria, is a follow up to 2019 film “Dream Girl,” which was one of the highest grossing films of the year. The modestly budgeted “Dream Girl 2,” produced by Ektaa R.
Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor for Balaji Motion Pictures, opened on Aug. 25 and has grossed some $10 million so far.
Khurrana describes the reasons for the film’s success as “multifactorial.” “Number one is the promise of fun and laughter kept by the first one and the second one is the shift in pattern of people going back to theaters and consuming content on the big screen. And that’s something that’s happened recently, the past three months, especially in India,” Khurrana told Variety.
After Shah Rukh Khan’s “Pathaan” ignited a previously stagnant post-pandemic box office in January, Indian hits had been sporadic, despite sparks across India’s various language-specific film industries. The Indian box office caught fire in the June-July period with hits including the Hindi-language “Satyaprem Ki Katha,” Marathi-language “Baipan Bhaari Deva,” Punjabi-language “Carry On Jatta 3,” Telugu-language “Bro” and “Baby” and Tamil-language “Maaveeran.” It exploded in August with the combined performances of Rajinikanth’s “Jailer,” Sunny Deol’s “Gadar 2,” Akshay Kumar’s “OMG 2” and Chiranjeevi’s “Bhola Shankar” setting a new all-time theatrical gross box office weekend record for the
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