Loveratri: Aayush Sharma shares his lessons in Gujarati

For his debut film LoveRatri, which is set in Gujarat, Aayush Sharma travelled extensively in Ahmedabad and Baroda and interacted with the local people to understand the culture and lifestyle of the youth. He and the movie’s makers also discussed about the accent with which a Gujarati person would speak.

Says Aayush, “I realised that there is no pronounced local accent. They talk exactly the way anybody in Mumbai would speak Hindi. What they do have are local slang words, and some key words that they use in conversation. That’s typical of every city and that’s what I picked up.”

He also wanted to make sure that his character was not caricaturish and got the nuances right by interacting with the locals. “A lot of times, we make characters from different regions very loud with exaggerated accents in a bid to be authentic. I didn’t want to sound over-the-top, so my director Abhiraj (Minawala) and I  decided that I should go to Gujarat,” he shares.