Varun Dhawan recalls how he doubted himself and says the pandemic changed his mindset

Ahead of the release of his upcoming film Jugjugg Jeeyo, Varun Dhawan opened up on how his life has changed post-pandemic.

When the actor was asked how happy he is about his career and if he was content with his success, he replied, “I don’t feel satisfied, but I feel happy because I got an opportunity to do so much. But now, after the pandemic, I feel that everything is restarting… starting from scratch, so I feel like a newcomer right now. I feel like I have to start all over again and get back into things, but I don’t want to do it the same way I did back then. In my first eight years, as an actor, I was very stressed out. Of course, I was also having fun because I was at that age, but I would constantly feel some stress. Now I want to enjoy it and concentrate on good content.”

“Society puts a kind of pressure on all of us and defines what success is, and whether you are successful or not. You are made to feel that if you are not successful, you are no good, not a good person. And one starts believing it too, ‘am I a failure?’ Then you run behind success so much that your relationships suffer, you forget how to enjoy life, and that can also affect your acting. This was my introspection during the pandemic. I have realized how important it is to be happy in life. If we become upset, we’ll not be able to do our day-to-day work also. If you are happy, you’ll do good work and if you do good work, you’ll be happy. If you work only for money, you won’t have fun working,” said the 35-year-old actor when questioned about what exactly was the thought he was going through.

When the actor was asked about how excited he is for his film Jugjugg Jeeyo, he replied, “This is a massy film. There are Anil Kapoor and I. Even if you make us do classy work, it will look massy. It only has a Dharma logo, but the film is very massy.”