Song and dance

A bar was created at Film City,Mumbai,to showcase the marriage celebrations of Ayushmann and Yami in the promotional video that also stars John Abraham as an item boy. The promotional song will have John enter on a bike that is shaped like a sperm. Later he breaks into a bhangra jig as he joins the duo\’s wedding celebrations. Since Aysuhamann plays a Punjabi munda and the actress is shown as a Bong beauty,the song has a Punjabi-Bengali feel to it. According to a source related to the project,all of them will be seen dancing in the bar named \’Car-O-Bar\’. While the lead couple will be in a wedding attire,John will be seen in fusion wear. Titled Rum whisky,the video was choreographed by Bosco and Caesar over two days. According to the source,the song delivers a social message with background dancers seen as nurses delivering a message on sperm donation.

Shoojit Sircar had Ayushmann Khurrana and Yami Gautam attend acting workshops conducted by a professional at Act One,located in Delhi. It is the same workshop where he trained Minissha Lamba during the shoot of Yahaan. He says,“Workshops are really helpful,specially when you are dealing with newcomers.” The director further confesses that since Ayushmann is a VJ and Yami,the current face of Fair & Lovely and several other commercials,they were already camera friendly and it wasn’t difficult to get good shots from them. Also,in the case of Ayushmann,what added up was that the actor had to play a typical Delhi-wala Punjabi munda,which is close to his personality in real life. Shoojit also did a lot of research for the film as it dealt with a sensitive topic (sperm donation). He visited several infertility clinics and met up with infertility specialists.

Talking about John\’s involvement as a producer in the project,he says,“John\’s presence gave a big marketing platform to the film. It helped gain attention. It’s great that John is shooting for a promotional video.” He further added that John never interfered in the project and gave everybody full freedom to apply their creativity.

It was during the Delhi schedule of the movie that John paid a surprise visit on the sets. “We were working on an emotional sequence – the actor and actress were in tears when I got a call that John was arriving on sets. Suddenly we saw a huge crowd coming towards us. And soon the fake tears dried up as both Ayushmann and Yami were excited to meet and greet him. He stayed on the sets for an hour and mingled with everybody.