Shoojit Sircar expresses his view on Varun Dhawan, says 'Had different perception of people who become overnight stars'

Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan, who is currently juggling between multiple work assignments in Bollywood has joined hands with filmmaker Shoojit Sircar for their upcoming unconventional love story 'October'. The romantic drama is high on emtional rides with less grandeur and fanfare unlike other Varun Dhawan movies.

While the trailer of this forthcoming drama is doing rounds on social networking sites, the director shared his woking experience with the 'Student of the Year' fame.

As we all know the cinematic world of Shoojit Sircar is vastly different from the films Varun is usually associated with and quite naturally the fimmaker had a certain perception about the actor before he worked with him.

Shoojit has worked with Varun for the first time in their upcoming romantic drama ‘October’.

Talking about the same Sircar said, "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."

"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," he added.

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The ‘Piku’ director said his brief to Varun for the film was to detach himself momentarily from cell phones.

"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. For almost one year, my instruction was, to get up and watch the plant and breathe."

Varun, 30, said he couldn't do anything which he had done in his previous films for 'October'.

"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...'"

The process on set was different for Varun as he was coming straight from ‘Judwaa 2’, a film which was louder in tone.

"I had just done 'Judwaa 2' and come for this film so my pitch was loud always. He told me, in real life Varun, if we are sitting next to each other, why would you shout? Do you have a problem with anyone? So, he asked me to lower my pitch to a point that I felt there was a marker!

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"I started shooting the film and till the end I don't know what he did because I was not acting the way I feel I'm acting. It was just a very different experience, all thanks to him, Juhi (Chaturvedi) and Banita (Sandhu).

‘October’ is scheduled to release on April 13.

(With inputs from PTI)