Ayushmann Khurrana says his father’s beatings made him a ‘people pleaser’: ‘It was a normal thing at that time’

Ayushmann then proceeded to praise his late father and shared that he always pushed him to perform, and his investment was quite wholesome. “To hone my talent, my skill, to make me confident… I had stage fright. In my first play, I had no lines so from everything, he used to always tell me to perform. On every birthday party, school annual function, so I was the one who was dancing, acting, singing and doing everything as a triple threat. So it was him who was forcing me to just go on stage and do it. He is the reason I am here,” he said.

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In  an earlier chat with Honestly Saying Podcast, Ayushmann called his father a “dictator” and said, “I’m a completely different father. Mine was a dictator. Getting beaten with chappals, belts, etc… were par for the course, and of course, there was childhood trauma.”

Ayushmann’s brother Aparshakti previously shared an incident where their father beat him up with a cricket bat because he disrespected his cricket coach. He shared on Shubhankar Mishra’s YouTube channel, “You will not believe that for one kilometre, from the academy to our house, he hit me with a bat. And that day, he said something.”

Ayushmann and Aparshakti’s father, who was an astrologer named P Khurana, passed away in 2023.