

The 28-year-old actor has previously played uber-cool urban characters in films like Pyaar Ka Punchnama(2011), Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 (2015) and most recently in his first movie to have entered the exclusive 100-crore club, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (2018). The film also features Aaryan as a small-town boy, his first such role in an acting career of about seven years. This is the cleanest film I have made till date, in the sense that you can watch it with your entire family and can also relate with it,” he said. The film also has an angle of living-in with the full family. And Luka Chuppi is not just about live-ins, it has more to do with various family dimensions… If in families like the one you see in Luka Chuppi you want to hide something, it can cause a mad comedy of errors. So if the story resonates with me, I am all up for it. Stree, according to some people, I shouldn’t have made. Hindi Medium, I should definitely have been apprehensive about. Badlapur, I should have been apprehensive about. “I don’t think by nature I am an apprehensive person. He said that he believes in his instincts when it comes to investing in a script. Vijan, with his eye for unconventional stories, is currently enjoying a dream run at the box office. His previous ventures have included successful films like Being Cyrus (2006), Badlapur (2015), Hindi Medium (2017) and Stree (2018) among others. You don’t need to look to the West for inspiration.” If you look within India, you don’t need to look anywhere else. Small town is a much larger market these days, in the sense that they represent true India… Now we want stories about us-relatability, relevance, however you word it. Only days ahead of the release Guardian 20 caught up with Luka Chuppi actors and producer Dinesh Vijan to discuss the film, and to understand what has led to this rise we’re witnessing in stories set in small-town India.
