Badhaai Ho actor Ayushmann Khurrana: We live in progressive India.

Following an interaction with sexologist
and Mirror columnist Dr Mahinder Watsa,
Ayushmann Khurrana and Sanya Malhotra
discuss the importance of sex education
and assert that their generation is more
open about taboo' topics.
On Monday, around noon, Ayushmann
Khurrana and Sanya Malhotra, the jodi' of
Junglee Pictures' upcoming slice-of-life
comedy, Badhaai Ho, which opens on
Dussehra, met 95-year-old sexologist Dr
Mahinder Watsa, popular for his Mumbai
Mirror column, Ask the Sexpert, for a
freewheeling chat. In the film,
Ayushmann's character Nakul, while
spinning dreams around his future with
Renee (Sanya), suddenly discovers to his
horror, that his 50-something mother is
pregnant, and his second sibling is on the
way.
The 34-year-old actor admitted that he has
been wanting to meet the nonagenarian
for years. "When I arrived in Mumbai 10
years ago, I would religiously read Dr
Watsa's Mirror column and have a hearty
laugh over some of the questions and his
witty answers. It's one of the most
entertaining columns and proves just how
much we are lagging behind on the
subject of sex education going by some of
the queries, Ayushmann points out.
He admits that when the Family Planning
Association of India set up the meeting
with their President, he was a little wary
because Dr Watsa is his grandparents' age.
"Since we don't talk to our dada-dadis
about such things, I was wondering what
kind of a chat we would have. But I found
Dr Watsa to be really cool and loved talking
to him, smiles the actor.
Prod him on whether he could discuss the
taboo' topic with his parents and he says,
"They were cool too, but like everyone else,
I mostly discussed the subject with friends,
seniors and older cousins though I did
start cracking nonvegetarian jokes with
my father once I was in college, reveals
Ayushmann, asserting that he himself will
be comfortable talking about sex with his
kids when they are older. "My generation
is more open. For that matter even the
Supreme Court is so progressive on
subjects like LGBTQ and adultery. We live in
progressive India and the next generation
will reap the benefits, he avers.
Meanwhile, Sanya admits that after the
Badhaai Ho trailer started airing, she had
many people coming up to her and
confiding that they had faced such
situations in real life too. "It hasn't
happened in my immediate family, but my
manager was 20 when her mother got
pregnant again and it was pretty normal
for her. In fact, it's the story of Gajraj Raoji
who plays Ayushmann's father in the film.
His kids were born 13 years apart too,
she informs.
Dr Mahinder Watsa flanked by Ayushmann
Khurrana and Sanya Malhotra; (inset)
Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao and Surekha Sikri
on the film's sets
She goes on to say tha t while her school
and college didn't impart sex education,
her mother told her sister and her all
about the birds and the bees when she
was in the seventh standard. "But because
of the lack of formal education on the
subject, I had misconceptions about oral
sex, she admits.
Her co-star is quick to add with a laugh
that as kids they believed in the simplistic
phrase that "bachche bhagwan ki den
hote hain. "I'm glad kids today are getting
proper sex education, asserts the actor
who has been dabbling with such quirky
subjects on screen, from playing a sperm
donor in Vicky Donor and the newly-
engaged guy Mudit who suffers from
erectile dysfunction in Shubh Mangal
Saavdhan to the frazzled Nakul. Badhaai
Ho!

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