No one was willing to do Fawad Khan's role. We kept it on the backburner for over a year. There was a point when we almost didn't make it. 'Kapoor and Sons' (Since 1921) was a tough film to cast. As an example, one needs to look no further than Dharma Productions’ 2016 release Kapoor and Sons, a film that was kept on the backburner for over one year because no leading Bollywood actor would agree to play the role of a gay man. Khan’s views, even back as in 1995, were a far cry from the veiled homophobia that several Bollywood actors have been accused of. “We are not laughing at gay people in film. “I don’t think it’s detrimental to my career to play such roles,” he said. Irrfan Khan also said that he had no qualms about playing a gay man. 'If Ashish had a crush on me, he expressed it in the most intimate way in the film! Adhura was made for TV audiences, but I don't know why it never got released.' /kUqDD0rxTV- manishgaekwad June 16, 2022 The actor spoke to about the film and his comfort with queer love. 'If Ashish had a crush on me, he expressed it in the most intimate way in the film! Adhura was made for TV audiences, but I don't know why it never got released,” the actor said.
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