TIL Desk Bollywood/ He is an actor, a singer and has been a VJ in the past but Ayushmann Khurrana says turning producer was not a part of his career plan. Ayushmann has donned a producer’s hat for wife Tahira Kashyap’s directorial debut “Toffee”, a short film set in the 1990s which takes on child marriage.
The “Shubh Mangal Savdhaan” actor said it was the story of “Toffee” that pushed him to back the project. “Producing films was not really on my radar. I am more of an actor and singer and performer. I am more of an artiste.
I don’t understand numbers. We needed somebody who is liable and would do it in a clean, nice manner. So we got Mukesh Chhabra for this short film,” Ayushmann told in an interview.
The idea to turn producer was purely a creative decision for Ayushmann and he felt a story on the issue of child marriage was the need of the hour. Ayushmann revealed that the idea of a short film struck Tahira’s during her childhood when she came across a girl named Ritu, who was married when she was 15-year-old.
