An Indian train journey is a life
experience, the diversity, the color, the melting pot of language, the varied
cultures and a window that gives you a diverse panoramic view of India at a
glance. Probably why Ayushmann Khuranna still rides the train every chance he
gets. Even today Ayushmann travels from the capital city to his home town by
train his favorite mode of transport!
The train journey appeals to the
artist in him, Ayushmann feels that on a plane one is just waiting to get off
and kill time by watching movies but in a train one there is so much
inspiration around you. He also feels that in a train one can listen to music
clearly and that the romance of the journey is in the people, the
reverberations and the ever-changing vista. According to him, the train is a
great environment to inspire and create.
But it’s not just the inspiration
that he loves about travelling by the Indian Railways; it’s also a sense of
nostalgia… His summer vacations with his family often started with a train
journey. Ayushmann nostalgically adds “I love train travel for the sake of
nostalgia… I know a lot of trains by their names. Even when I was doing theatre
I used to travel from Chandigarh to Mumbai and there was this train called the
Punjab Mail, which I used to travel by.”
Ask him about one of his favorite
times on a train he quips “I remember coming to Mumbai for Mood Indigo, we
10-15 bunch of boys with dholak and guitars for street plays and we used to
sing for the passengers, travelling from bogey to bogey and we used to collect
money. We used to collect so much money that after finishing the concert, we
used to sponsor our Goa trips with that money.”
And while Ayushmann is delights
in his joy ride … we are sure all his fans can’t wait to bump into him on his
next Train ride!!!
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