Sriram Raghavan is a mad genius: Varun Dhawan

Actor Varun Dhawan, known for his vibrant personality, believes it took a “mad genius” like Sriram Raghavan to present him in an intense role in ‘Badlapur’. Otherwise, he says people had never thought that he could portray a dark character in a thriller.

“I had always wanted to do a thriller but I guess no one thought that I could ever pull it off. ‘Badlapur’ offered me the chance to experiment with the genre which I enjoy watching” Varun said, while talking about the television premiere of his film.

Talking about his transformation from a romantic hero to an action hero, the actor said: “Well, ‘Badlapur’ did transform me? I never looked at the role as the hero’s, but just prepared for Raghu’s role? I felt his pain, he is as flawed as any other human being.”

He believes the director helped him push his limits for the film, which will premiere on September 20 at 8.30 p.m.

“Sriram is a mad genius who keeps looking to push the envelope and do something new. I am very lucky to have worked with a director like him so early in my career,” Varun said, and added that the experience of working with Nawazuddin Siddiqui was equally enriching.

“Nawaz bhai is a gifted actor. The things we do to each other (in the film), required us to hate each other. So, the chemistry had to be little weird while we were shooting.

“However, we bonded really well while promoting the film. Nawaz bhai’s character and performance is one of the key reasons why the film worked,” he said.

IANS

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13 Comments

  • I always felt ranbir is media created flop wasted spoon-ded star-kid….!!.. He is due to Kapoor tag..highly overrated deepika created actor….!!…

    But Varun has joined this league…. He is Kjo created Alia dependent star….!!… If he does some diff movie…it opens poor like Badlapur… N if the whole industrywala,, mediawala wud nt hv backed that painfully B-Grade semiporn movie,, it wud hv crashed n hv been flop…!!…

  • Badlapur was a bad movie.. Donno why so much support for this one. It had so many scenes which come in category of soft porn…

  • Varun is better than flop arjunK…!..

    Although varun is media created KJo actor…!!.. Nothin widout alia,,shraddha

  • varun was very good in badlapur….many people thinks that nawaz overshadowed him….but both acted brilliantly. …its just nawaz wala role was meatear

  • @SAASHA KHAN do not copy paste from others site. if you believe them go comment there…why here…

    you did not mentioned…longest film runing ever….the great master piece DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE……19 years slap on your face …even slap on dosra and teesra Alien Khan…

    Daag of yash chopra….Parampara…winner Amir..3seera khan
    Daag on subhash ghai….Veer….winner Salman..2sra khan
    Daag on Soraj barjatya…..MPKDH…winner is Rethink..
    most silver jubilee….srk …12..amir 3…sallu 4…winner SRK sir
    Most Golden Jubilee ….SRK …15 amir…4 sallu…2 winner is SRK
    Most platinium Jubilee…SRK …3 amir …0 sallu…2 winner SRK..

    all in above SRK is the best…go do home work rahter than copy paste BOI..Remake bhai or remake Ghajini..winner my foot…

  • varun dhawan is next govinda or
    salman khan.arjunK is next sanjay kapoor(got hit due to heroins)
    after khans,ajay akki
    list will go like this
    1.hritik
    2.Varun/Ranbir
    3.Ranbir/varun
    4.Ranveer
    5.tiger
    6.sooraj

  • @Fan 5 rupees we all know who is the daag of yash Chopra. So better leave it. YRF’s biggest ATBB and ATHG still remains Dhoom 3 with megastar aamir khan. The teesra khan could never give such big hits to YRF despite working with them in so many films. Also the lowest grosser of last decade was YLJK.

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