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Varun Dhawan: His Heroic Journey From Being Pappu To Today's Heartthrob!

Martini Shots, Bollywood, Sat Apr 23 2016, Authors: Shefali Saxena (Editorial Team), http://www.desimartini.com/new...mp;utm_medium=latest

He shares his birthday with the God of Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, and this chap is all set to become the master blaster of Bollywood in the coming years. Varun Dhawan who carries the legacy of his father David Dhawan started off on his own as an AD in My Name Is Khan.

Little did he know that his good karma at Dharma will fetch him his grand debut with Karan Johar. One of his three prodigies, this hero has so far maintained the best curve in his career among all the three SOTY students. While Alia is killing it with her choice of movies, Varun is taking baby steps to portray rich roles in films.

He’s stolen everyone’s thunder with his valiant performance in Badlapur, and has also managed to grab a movie with SRK in short span of his career. He recently became the voice of Captain America for Marvel.

We bring you a brief summary of his journey from being the youngest kid in the house to a dashing hero!

Varun Dhawan's childood pictures with his mother Karuna Dhawan and brother Rohit

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For those of you who don't know, he's the son of India's best director in comedy, David

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Varun's nickname at home is Pappu!

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He saved his dad on the sets of Main Tera Hero while he fell unconscious due to high sugar levels.

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He used to distribute pamphlets as a part time job in the UK.

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His first short film was The White Mountain, which also stars Arjun Kapoor.

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He also holds an MBA degree from Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.

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He has featured in many advertisements as a kid.

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He did an ad for Colgate toothpaste.

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He has always been in news for dating childhood sweet heart Natasha Dalal.

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His pink trunks in SOTY made him extremely popular among women.

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He started his career in Bollywood as an AD in Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan

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This is one of his first looks that came out for Student Of The Year!

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His best GQ Photo shoot ever!

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He had injured himself on the sets of Main Tera Hero while shooting in Bangalore for the title track.

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His bitter-sweet relationship with Alia Bhatt still stays on.

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Both of them are supposed to star in K Jo's Shuddhi, which was passed on to him by Salman Khan.

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He stamped his existence and talent in Bollywood with Badlapur.

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Varun gave an exceptional performance which till date is his best work!

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Within a span of 4 years in his career, he's worked with SRK in Dilwale.

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Actually, it was his performance and bromance in Dilwale which got more acclaim for the movie from critics.

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Varun is extremely popular among kids.

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In this picture he's sitting with the kid he acted with in Badlapur. It is said he locked himself away from home to prepare for this character and he had cut all communication even with his mother.

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He shares a great rapport with Deepika Padukone.

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They are rumoured to be doing the Indian version of The Fault In Our Stars.

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He has always wanted to be a wrestler since childhood.

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He worships The Rock - Dwayne Johnson and the two are friends on Twitter.

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These three are still friends.

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Sidharth, Alia and Varun have maintained their friendship since SOTY. While Sid-Alia are said to be dating, Varun has found love in Natasha.

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Varun Dhawan has managed to garner a lot of attention and is, in fact, ruling the Bollywood world with his awesome look, great acting skills and incredible dancing skills. Not many know, but he started his journey in the tinsel town as an assistant director to Karan Johar for the movie My Name is Khan. After some time, he started his long journey in Bollywood as an actor in the movie Student of the year. Everyone loved this actor in the movie Badlapur where he gave his best performance. He is taking baby steps to make it big in this industry. This actor is also set to voice Captain America in Hindi.

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