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It’s just about getting simple things correct: Varun Dhawan on ‘Bawaal’, director Nitesh Tiwari

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New Delhi, July 13 (PTI): Bollywood star Varun Dhawan says collaborating with filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari on their upcoming project “Bawaal” helped him get back to the basics of his craft that led him to acting in the first place. Dhawan said while trying to “come across a certain way” on screen, actors often forget simple things and “Bawaal” helped him refocus on them. “When you’re in a field for a very long time, you often overlook the simple things… Things that got you to the party in the first place. It’s just about getting these simple things correct,” the actor told PTI in a group interview at an event in Dubai where the team launched the film’s trailer.
The filming on “Bawaal” started last year in April and during the course of the shooting, Dhawan said Tiwari made him realise his habit of tilting his head like Amitabh Bachchan. “I remember very well, something would happen to me. I don’t know why but subconsciously, when shooting a scene, I would become like this (tilts his head). So Nitesh sir would keep telling me ‘Brother aapka gardan jhuk raha hai… aap Bachchan ki tarah kyun…?’ I also don’t know why and what habit that I’ve formed, that I’m angling myself while talking or wanting to come across a certain way. That was something I had to work on,” he said.
Cinema is a visual medium, and it is important for an actor to connect with the audience, said Dhawan, 36. “So these are things which I had to work on in terms of my craft… It’s like going back and standing in front of a mirror and then trying to say the line straight, again and again.” “Bawaal” follows an ordinary but popular high school history teacher Ajay Dixit (Dhawan), fondly called Ajju bhaiya, who enjoys a mini celebrityhood in his hometown. The film features Janhvi Kapoor as Ajay’s wife Nisha. Kapoor said while she always knew working on the film would be a special journey, she never imagined it to be so “simple and joyful”. “It’s an emotionally layered film and Nitesh sir is such a big director… I assumed that there would be some different directions… It will be complicated. I’d already have to step up, but the simplicity, clarity and the purity of the story made everything easy. ‘Bawaal’ taught me a lot about how good things don’t necessarily have to be complicated,” the 26-year-old actor said. Set to premiere on Prime Video on July 21, the film focuses on “a series of events which take place on Ajay and Nisha’s trip to the World War II trail in Europe and test their marriage, forcing Ajay to confront the biggest war of them all – the war within”, according to the official synopsis.
At the trailer launch of the movie in Dubai over the weekend, Tiwari’s wife, writer-filmmaker Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, said the film was also an ode to her father-in-law, who was a history teacher and wanted to visit places affected by World War II.

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