Nushrratt Bharuccha expresses ‘hurt’ at being replaced Ananya Panday in Ayushmann Khurrana’s Dream Girl 2: ‘The entire cast was the same other than…’ | Bollywood News
Nushrratt Bharuccha recently opened up about the hurt she felt when she was replaced Ananya Panday in filmmaker Raaj Shaandilyaa’s Dream Girl 2. In a recent interview, Nushrratt called the decision of the makers to not cast her in Dream Girl 2 ‘not cool’ while maintaining the whole cast as it is.
Talking about the challenges she faced in the film industry, she told Nayandeep Rakshit, “It hurt me even more when I was not part of my own sequel also, when every other actor was the same except the girl, which I felt was, not cool naa, guys? Just not cool. But, theek hai, no problem.”
Nushrratt also revealed that she didn’t fight the makers for their decision because their minds were made up. She said, “I can’t fight something I know is not going to change in any way; what do I fight? What am I going to say? ‘Why not me?’ They’ll say, ‘because we don’t want you.’ That’s the truth of it; it ends there. Eventually, it’s the choice somebody’s making, right? I cannot question your choice.” She added that the only thing she can do is not giving up on herself. “It’s saying I’ll work with people who want to work with me,” she said.
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Nushrratt has expressed her disappointment with the makers of Dream Girl 2 in the past too. In an interaction with E Times, she called the decision ‘unfair’ and said, “I don’t know; there is no logic, and there is no answer to it. I am a human being, so of course it hurts. And, of course, it feels unfair. But I get it, it is their decision. Cool, no problem.”
Despite opening to mixed reviews, Dream Girl 2 (2023) became the highest-grossing film of Ayushmann Khurrana’s career. The film raked in Rs 106.71 crore at the box office. The Dream Girl franchise starred Ayushmann as a man whose financially difficult circumstances force him to cross-dress and disguise himself as a woman, which leads to chaos and confusion.
