Mumbai. Film actor Varun Dhawan on Tuesday revealed that he had once asked filmmaker Aditya Chopra to give him a role in an action film, but the producer had refused him saying that it would be appropriate to make a high budget film with him at the moment. Will not done.
“Citadel: Honey Bunny” series is the Indian adaptation of the former favorite spy series “Citadel” and will star Varun Dhawan along with Samantha Ruth Prabhu. Dhawan mentioned this incident on the occasion of the release of the trailer of the Prime Video show. Dhawan said, “During the lockdown, I met Aditya Chopra, he was working on the film ‘Tiger-3’ at that time. I asked him, ‘Why don’t you make action films with young talent? He said, ‘I want to give you acting roles, not action roles.’
Dhawan said, “Chopra said, ‘I can’t do that because I can’t give you that budget right now. You are not in a position where I can give you such a big budget.” Dhawan said that when “Honey Bunny” came to him, the first question he asked Raj Nidimoru, producer of “The Family Man” and “Ferzi” and Krishna DK and Amazon Prime Video, was about its budget.
Dhawan, who is set to star in Atlee-produced “Baby John”, said he is grateful to southern filmmakers for giving him the opportunity to work in action films and hoped that Bollywood will also take note. “Citadel: Honey Bunny” is set in the 90s and is presented as an interesting narrative, mixing a love story with action. Of. Of. The Hindi series starring Menon, Saqib Saleem and Sikandar Kher will premiere on Prime Video on November 7.