From tailoring to internalising darkness, Varun does it all!

By Brandon Ambosta

on December 12, 2017

Varun Dhawan could just be everyone’s fave stud muffin on screen and mint the moolah. However, this talented all-rounder craves to put his performance skills to the test, every once in a while. His prep for his next, Sui Dhaaga actually sees him mastering the art of tailoring – or at least giving a suitable rendering of it!

In two images released by production house YashRaj, a serious-faced, black-checked shirt clad Varun appears to be wielding a sewing machine quite professionally. The film, based on a social initiative and inspired by the Make in India initiative, will go on the floors in January 2018. Varun pairs up with Anushka Sharma for this one, and the makers had released a video on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, which showed the lead pair saluting Gandhiji’s simplicity and swadesi movement, revealing why Indian manufactured goods are the best.

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If it’s tailoring for Sui Dhaaga, Varun has also done what it took to get under the roles of characters in his past films…

In ABCD2, he had undergone strenuous training to acquire the lean dancer’s body required for the role, losing six kilos for the film.

Prepping for the dark and visceral Badlapur, his “most challenging role,” he actually underwent an inner change. His close friends noticed how he had become constantly edgy, nervous and introverted, as he internalised the grief of his character, who had undergone immense hurt and loss. Even his mother Lali Dhawan was jolted by the sea-change in him, as he played an inconsolably grieved man.

Varun has recently completed shooting for Shoojit Sircar’s directorial, October. The story of the film has been kept under tight wraps; however Varun has implied that it is one of his most challenging roles so far. He had earlier revealed that the kind of preparations Shoojit wanted for the film was “very different from the usual training processes.”

We are intrigued! A great way to push himself as an actor, even as he doles out the crowd-pleasers like Judwaa 2 and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya.