Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt, on Tuesday, attended an event in Mumbai for an upcoming award show. As expected, the two co-stars, who are termed as ‘Varia’ by their fans, were asked questions about their personal and professional lives. While Alia opened up about embracing motherhood after welcoming daughter Raha in November, Varun too was asked about his plans to embrace fatherhood. Nonetheless, his reply certainly took everyone by surprise, albeit in a hilarious way.
When a journalist asked Varun about his plans to start a family, he said in a jest, “Ye (Alia) mummy ban gayi, tu papa ban gaya..to hum sabko production chalu kar dena chahiye (She has become a mother, you have become a father, should all of us start having babies)?”
Alia then said, “Why will he (Varun) tell you his plans?” Varun, who is married to Natasha Dalal, further quipped, “Main apni biwi se baat karta hun ki aapne aise bola hai ki aaj se planning shuru karo (I will discuss it with my wife and tell her that you have said this and we should start planning from today).”
Varun and Alia were present at the press conference of Zee Cine Awards 2023. Both actors also talked about the success of Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Pathaan’. When asked if the success of ‘Pathaan’ is Bollywood’s reply to all the boycott calls, Alia stated, “I don’t think that we have so much aggression in us like that. I think we are grateful to be working and living our dream from day to day basis and we believe that we belong to the audience and the audience can say whatever they want to say about us, as long as we are just keeping them entertained.”
She added, “That’s it and we feel very happy as an industry that a film like Pathaan is not just a blockbuster but possibly the biggest blockbuster of Indian cinema. We feel grateful for moments like this and pray that this keeps happening.”
‘Pathaan’ has broken box office records of ‘Brahmastra’. Reacting to it, Alia signed off, “Every film should break every film’s record. I am very happy with that.”
