Varun Dhawan: Most Hindi movies about infidelity have chauvinistic undertones in comedy guise

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oi-Swikriti Srivastava

| Updated: Thursday, June 16, 2022, 12:31 PM [IST]

Varun Dhawan is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film Jug Jugg Jeeyo, which will be directed by Raj Mehta and which also stars Kiara Advani, Anil Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, Maniesh Paul and Prajakta Kohli. In his recent tete-a-tete with a media portal, Varun spoke about jug jugg jeeyo and the topic of infidelity.

He told Midday, “Sometimes we watch fun movies, but at the end we sit back and say, ‘Yeh ends with Galat Hai Na.’ Jug Jugg Jeeyo deliberately avoids this. We tried to be bold with the message that is meant to take audiences back. Most Hindi films about infidelity have chauvinistic undertones in comedy guise. They reinforce populist thinking. Here we talked about the ending again and again.”

He added that divorce is a big deal in our country, and yet the ending of the film is the way it is because he and the creators wanted to please the audience.

Varun added that he consciously wants to make films that don’t reinforce problematic thinking.

“Something changed in me as my niece
[Niyara]
was born. We care so much about them and want to protect them. I want everyone to treat her like I do at home. Does the world we create with our work push it? Small normalizations — for example, a guy can do that and a girl can’t — like that need to be broken,” Dhawan said.

Aside from Jug Jugg Jeeyo, Varun also has Bawaal and Bhediya in the pipeline for release soon.

Speaking about these projects, Varun said, “They are
[mainstream]
Movies, but they come from directors like Amar Kaushik and Nitesh Tiwari. So the desire to experiment remains.”