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Shoojit Sircar on Varun Dhawan: “I had a different perception all together”

Filmmaker Shoojit Sircar has opened up about his actor Varun Dhawan, who he is working with in ‘October’.

The film’s trailer, which was unveiled yesterday, has got many talking for its interesting take. Talking about working with Dhawan, Sircar was cited in Times Of India saying, “I had a different perception (of him) all together, of people who become overnight stars with crazy fan following, which I’m not used to. I’m used to my kind of cinema which, if people like it, I’m happy, if not, I’m still happy because I got to tell my story my way.”

He added, “I asked him, will you surrender yourself and are you honest? He said ‘I’m an honest person, this, what you see outside (image) is not me.’ I told him to be himself in the film. I just narrated two lines to him while he was going to shoot another film. I said as a process to prepare for the film, don’t check your phone first thing in the morning as was his habit and instead as soon as you get up, go and sit on front of a plant and watch it for ten minutes. That’s your job.”

Sircar said, “This film is based on honesty, I couldn’t do anything else which I do on other films. I couldn’t remove my shirt, dance, couldn’t behave cute, I couldn’t do all those things. I stopped applying make up and still he (Shoojit) would come and say ‘make it a little less…’”

‘October’ releases on Friday 13th April 2018.