Ayushmann Khurrana had fun learning Bengali

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who plays a Bengali novelist named Abhimanyu Roy in the forthcoming film Meri Pyaari Bindu says it was fun learning the language.

So how difficult did the Punjabi find learning the language?

Khurrana said: “I don’t want to call myself a hard-core Punjabi. For Bangla, I had two teachers. In the film, I am speaking in Bangla with my parents. But with Parineeti [Chopra], I am speaking mostly Hindi because she is not playing a Bengali in the film. The nuances in the film are strikingly Bengali. It was fun learning this language.”

In Meri Pyaari Bindu, directed by Akshay Roy, Chopra plays an aspiring singer.

Asked if he would like to play a singer on screen, Khurrana said: “Definitely ... Because you get to sing your own songs. In this particular film, I’m, of course, not singing because I play a non-singer in the film. Parineeti is playing the singer. If she wasn’t playing the singer, then I would have sung.”