Obviously nice moment for me: Ayushmann Khurrana on 'Dream Girl' turning his 2nd Rs 100-crore-film

With his latest release, Dream Girl, Ayushmann Khurrana has delivered his sixth hit in a row and the second Rs 100-crore film — his first one was Badhaai Ho in 2018. “Having another film in the 100-crore club is obviously a nice moment for me, though I never do projects with the pressure to do 100-crore every time I come on screen. As an artiste, I’d then open myself up to making compromises and I never want to do that. I want to back original content at all times. I thrive by doing good cinema, films that make a mark because they are brilliantly written and brilliantly told on screen.”

As Ayushmann had said in an earlier interview to this paper, Dream Girl is his first masala commercial entertainer. “Dream Girl was my attempt at doing an out-and-out mass comedy and I’m delighted to be getting this kind of love and appreciation from people pan India.”

The Article 15 actor is in the best phase of his career and he wants to be known as the star who picks the best films. “I will continue doing cinema that I feel is good. Today, good cinema will fetch good box-office collections. So, yes, after six hits in a row, the pressure is immense to continue delivering superlative cinema to audiences. I think I will just have to back my natural instinct at choosing scripts because that’s what has given me hits and adulation,” he says.