Mumbai Sep 23 (IANS) Actor Ayushmann Khurrana who will next be seen in Amit Ravindernath Sharma s "Badhaai Ho" learnt three dialects for the family comedy.
While the actor picks up languages and accents easily he also rehearsed with a special diction trainer and the film s writer Akshat Ghildial on the sets apart from spending time with friends from Punjab and Haryana. In the film he plays a character whose family belongs to Meerut and he needed a bit of that flavour in his dialogue delivery as well.
Ayushman said in a statement: "I consider myself as a linguist and I love learning accents from different parts of the country. Having travelled across the lengths and breadth of the nation I love grasping different dialects."
The actor who is from Chandigarh said: "My parents stay in Panchkula which is in Haryana. So I have closely interacted with both Punjabis and Haryanvis. But having an accent coach or a writer who is from the same place is really helpful. Since Akshat is from Meerut and Shantanu (co-writer Shantanu Srivastava) is from Haryana both of them made it quite easy for me and helped me with the accents."
Ghildial said: "Ayushmann picked up the accents and dialect really well. And it was a great experience working with him."
Junglee Pictures is presenting the movie in association with Chrome Pictures. Produced by Vineet Jain Aleya Sen Hemant Bhandari and Sharma it is co-produced by Priti Shahani and releasing on October 19.

--IANS rb/sed