EXCLUSIVE: David Dhawan recalls Varun Dhawan getting upset when scolded on movie sets; reveals him complaining to Rohit, “Bhaiya, he yelled in front of everyone”

When a director works with their kids on a movie set, it gets a little personal where they get carried away with their emotions. Most of the time, the parent is very stern with their kids to make them teach certain things. Well, on a similar front, filmmaker David Dhawan revealed that he once scolded Varun Dhawan on the sets of a movie and it made him upset. In the latest episode of The Invincibles season 2 with Arbaaz Khan, David revealed Varun even cried on the set and complained about it to his brother Rohit Dhawan about the same.

David Dhawan shares how he nudged Varun to do something spontaneous

When Arbaaz Khan asked if David likes to direct a film with a bound script even with his son. He said, “He (Varun) wants to know the film, to understand what his scene is, how his graph is, and all that. But he knows his dad will ask him to be spontaneous. ‘Do something else, yaar. You can do it’, I pushed him. ‘This is how cinema is. Don’t be stuck on this line, laugh here, or cry here, sing something.’ I said, ‘Do what you feel. As an actor, you must give me that’.

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“The first time I shot with him, I was doing a scene with him, and it was a big scene with Anupam (Kher). The scene was long so what I did was, I placed his shot at number eight. He (Varun) said, “You didn’t take my shot first?’ I said, ‘Listen, I have to go according to the lighting. I will not go here first, then there. You have to learn this,” he continued.

Varun Dhawan used to get upset with his scoldings

The director revealed that Varun started crying the next day and he was upset with him. David said, “I was tough on him for a reason. People should not know that he is my son. There was one scene I remember, he came and turned on his bike and fell. I was like, ‘What is this? Where did this come from? Yes, he’s Karan Johar’s actor’. But he got a little upset and he told his brother Rohit Dhawan that ‘Bhaiya, he used to yell in front of everyone’.”

Watch the full interview here

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