October is piece of world cinema : Varun Dhawan

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In conversation with the Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan and Banita Sandhu for their movie October, in cinemas worldwide. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00October is a piece of world cinema, I feel. I wouldn't only call it a Hindi film. I feel

00:11it lends itself to a far, far more wider audience, you know. And it's a great time for a film

00:17like October to come. It's a great time for Sujit Sarkar to launch a newcomer and for

00:22this story to be told. I think in 2018 is the right time when we're all so obsessed

00:27with our phones, when technology has almost taken over our life. We're actually sitting

00:31and listening to someone or sitting and paying time, or sitting and spending time with someone

00:37is just put on the back burner. I think a film like October is the right time to come

00:41for everyone.

00:42I mean, he's a filmmaker I've always wanted to work with. Right from Yaha, his body of

00:49work has been exceptional. And to team up with him on a film which he's wanted to make

00:53probably from 2004. So it's like a passion project for the director. Unko kahaani boli

00:59nahi bolni hai. So I was like, man, this guy's charged, you know, he's not going to compromise

01:03on anything when he makes this film. Let's go for it.

01:08Technically, I didn't have to audition. But I do feel in hindsight that Sujit sir used

01:13that double mint ad, that week of shooting as my audition for October, because he saw

01:18how I was performing those few days. And then he said, Okay, listen, I want you to do this

01:22film. But for me, I mean, I suck at auditioning. Like I really do crumble under pressure. So

01:28it was the best way to get my first film, to be honest.

01:33I think it does exist. And in fact, the stories taken from real life incident itself, maybe

01:40not which happened in 2017 or 16 sometime back. It does exist. People like that do exist.

01:46It's just that we don't think they're cool enough to hang out with probably. I'm talking

01:50about our strata of society. We don't chill with them. They're not on our WhatsApp. So

01:55they're not in our friends list on Facebook or whatever. So but there are people like

01:59that. Yeah. And for them, sometimes that becomes their life.

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