Is David Dhawan the reason that Varun Dhawan is not doing films like Badlapur and October?
Varun Dhawan, by no means, is a bad actor. His work in October, Badlapur, and Sui Dhaga are proof of that.
October especially was a beautifully made movie in which he offered a subtle, restrained performance. It s possibly his best work till date. And the audience liked these movies for the kind of content they offered. It also deviated Varun s image from the typical masala roles that he s been associated with. Given the whole nepotism debate, it would actually work in his favour to venture into films that aren t massy. But Varun keeps acting in movies that seemed like they re all rehashed versions of each other. More often than not, he also plays terribly stereotypical characters that are nonsensical.
The changing face of hindi film entrepreneurs
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Scam 1992 (on Sony Liv), which told the story of
Harshad Mehta in granular detail, was the breakthrough series. It followed his rise from a lowly stockbroker to a messiah who controlled the fate of the market, painting Mehta as simultaneously arrogant and ambitious, irrepressible and charismatic, leaping from risk to risk without a care for failure. It was the most compelling portrait yet of an entrepreneur on Indian screens.
In the black-and-white era, as well as the first two decades of colour cinema in India, film characters with an entrepreneurial spirit were rare. There were practical reasons for this. In the post-independence years, it was difficult for young people to strike out on their own. When the hero in a 1950s or 60s film ran a business or ran from it, like Shammi Kapoor in