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While the cast and crew is celebrating 4
years of ‘Student of the Year’, one handsome student is flying high with back
to back success with the prowess of his talent. Growing up with the dream of becoming
a wrestler, Varun Dhawan is now punching Dishoom with the success of his films,
however this student rather had an interesting ABCD of acting to learn. His biggest
support being his elder brother Rohit who encouraged him to take up his first
acting assignment for a cola brand when Varun was a kid. Looking up to Elvis Presley
and Johnny Bravo, obsessed with Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Varun mimicked The
Rock with Cola Bottle as mic in his hand. The famous Ad Film Maker Prahlad
Kakkar – the director of the ad in question, saw a sincere, fresh face and
transparency in Varun and casted him for the ad. Being a tough task master, Mr.
Kakkar also grilled Varun on the set striving to get the best out of him. On realizing that he can take abuses, Prahlad got convinced that Varun can be an
actor. During his college days,
struggling to get into theaters, he finally managed a role of a Nepali Watchman
through one of his friends. A charmer in real life, Varun Dhawan ironically acted
in a play on the life of Hitler. Not only scoring in the field of acting, Varun
Dhawan has also tried his hand at direction with a short film – ‘White Mountain’
starring Arjun Kapoor. Not to the knowledge of many, Varun had also auditioned
for the acclaimed film – Life of Pi. Quite hopeful on being casted post getting
shortlisted, it came as a disappointment when he was rejected for the role. Not
one to lose hope, and to be close to his dream world - Bollywood, Varun Dhawan
started as an assistant to Karan Johar on My Name is Khan. Grasping as much
knowledge as possible, Varun learnt the nuances of Film making and graduated
from being an assistant of Karan Johar to an actor in the ace director’s film. With a promising future, this student has come
a long way in much short a time, with film makers queuing to cast him in their film
and hoping that Varun would say to them ‘Main Tera Hero’.
Source: Zoom: Gen Next – Varun Dhawan
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