Bollywood Star Kids

All set for his acting debut in Karan Johar's 'Student of the Year', director David Dhawan's son Varun Dhawan says as a child he wanted to become a wrestler. Varun told reporters last evening at the trailer launch of 'Student Of The Year', "I have this dream of directing. But as a child I wanted to become a wrestler. Like in childhood we used to watch WWF, I was inspired by all of that. One of my favourite wrestlers was Rock, who has become an actor." David Dhawan's Son Varun Dhawan "I used to have lot of arguments with my mother, due to a lot of bruises on my body for trying my hand at wrestling. I used to say 'I am Rock' and I would get slapped," the debutant actor said. The younger son of king of comedy David Dhawan, Varun grew up on a regular feed of mainstream cinema even as his elder brother Rohit took to direction with 'Desi Boyz'. "Rock became an actor and he is quite successful. So one day I realised that it ...

David Dhawan’s son gives up management for Student Of The Year: Varun Dhawan is to the manor born. The younger son of yesteryear commercial pasha David Dhawan, this youngster grew up on a regular feed of mainstream cinema. Having watched him and his older brother Rohit (he directed Desi Boyz) as youngsters, we knew that even when Varun was knee-high, he had an opinion on all kind of cinema. David Dhawan’s Son Varun Dhawan in Student Of The Year - Poster In all fairness his parents David and Lali didn't want him to join showbiz until he had a sound education and packed him off to Manchester to enrol for a course in business management. But like they say when your heart beats for the movies, then seeing your face on the marquee is all you really care about. So he took the flight from Manchester to Mumbai, or should we say, straight from Manchester to Karan Johar's office and impressed upon the filmmaker how he'd like to assist him on My Name is Khan. And one day when he was s...

Come on Rohit! Rohit Dhawan will make his directorial debut in Come on Pappu , which was to be directed by his father David Dhawan’s son Rohit is all set to follow his father’s footsteps. He will be directing a film for Percept Picture Company in August next year. The film titled Come on Pappu will feature Akshay Kumar. Incidentally, the film was to be initially directed by D a v i d Dhawan. Our source i n f o r m s , “David and S h a i l e n d r a Singh of Percept had done a lot of research. Last year, they had even visited studios in London for finalising the special effects for the film. The chimp, which will play the role of Pappu, has also been finalised long ago. Come on Pappu will be made on a budget of Rs 90 crore and will feature top stars from Bollywood. Akshay Kumar has already been finalised for one of the roles. Incidentally, Rohit is just 23 years old and David has also worked with him on the film.” Apparently, Rohit’s directorial debut was in the offing for some time now...