Despite being the son of acclaimed filmmaker David Dhawan, Varun made his Bollywood debut with a Karan Johar film to keep up with “a family tradition”. At the launch of his niece Anjini Dhawan’s debut film, Binny and Family, Varun shared, “She is my niece, but I am here as [her] older brother. It is a good film, and that is why I am here. My father never launched me because that tradition is not there in my family; he doesn’t believe in that. [Similarly], we have no hand in what she has done, and it will be wrong for me to take credit for any of her success. Genuinely, she has done it on her own,” he said. Varun stepped into Bollywood with Student of the Year (2012), which also marked the debut of star-kid Alia Bhatt, and Sidharth Malhotra.

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