Varun Dhawan recently recalled the time when he got a earful by his father David Dhawan for trying to interfere in his direction on set as a young actor.
Father’s lesson on work and hierarchy
In an interview with ANI, Varun said, “When it comes to work, my father sets aside all personal relationships…he has his own way of doing things. I remember once, during my internship on one of his films, I must have made a mistake, and I was suggesting how a shot should be done. But that wasn’t his vision, and I wasn’t at a level where I could say anything. I was too young. Then he said, ‘Jab tum apni film banaoge ya jab ek mukaam pe pahuch jaaoge tab karlena ye sab. (When you make your own film or reach a certain stature, then do all this).'”
Learning from the experience
Elaborating fuether, he added, “Of course, I felt disappointed at first, but he was right. However, now, our creative discussions have become very productive.”
Varun Dhawan on boundaries
During his recent chat with ETimes, Varun opened up on actors now having boundaries because due to social media, things are blown out of proportion and more often than not, presented with a wrong narrative.He said, “It’s so easy to create a false narrative today with social media. What shakes you more is a false narrative. For example, I’m working with the PR people I’m working with for years. Now it has gone to a level where it’s beyond them. Earlier we would know if a story is planted but now it has gone to a level wherein ‘kuch bhi ho raha hai’. That is not the moral ethics that I stand for or my team stands for. When we see these things we get shaken up and someone like a Janhvi who is relatively new, it shakes your confidence.”Elaborating further, he added, “Haal hi mein mere driver ke saath hua. We just reached somewhere but the way the videos were shared, it became a thing that ‘they are fighting’. I said, ‘what rubbish’. He was saying that only, that I want to come and take a picture with you. That man has come and taken a picture with me later on. Nothing happened. If someone from law enforcement comes and stands next to me. I will stand there and listen and talk to him. The man has come and taken a picture with me, the cop spoke to me. Nothing happened. But people want to make an issue out of nothing.”Varun Dhawan will next star in the romantic comedy Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, directed by Shashank Khaitan. The film also features Janhvi Kapoor, Sanya Malhotra, and Rohit Saraf, and is set to release on October 2.
