Badlapur turns 10: From Nawazuddin getting no dialogues, to Varun Dhawan’s ‘unintentional’ casting, some BTS tales

Feb 22, 2025 10:45 PM IST
Listed here are some lesser recognized BTS tales about Varun Dhawan-Nawazuddin Siddiqui-Yami Gautam Dhar’s 2015 movie Badlapur.
Badlapur- Don’t Miss The Starting, launched in 2015, is counted among the many greatest thrillers ever produced from Hindi cinema. Starring Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Divya Dutta and Yami Gautam Dhar in pivotal roles, it revolved round a person’s quest for revenge after his complete household is killed.
Because it hit the 10-year milestone on February 20 lately, right here’s a peek at some fascinating anecdotes revolving across the film–
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who performed the function of Liaq Mohammed Tungrekar, was given no dialogues for the movie. He was, in keeping with stories, given a free hand to say no matter he felt like in the course of the take.
Sriram Raghavan didn’t need the music Jee Karda’s music video to be part of the movie. He revealed in an interview to Movie Companion that it was on producer Dinesh Vijan’s insistence that it was retained, and he doesn’t prefer it thus far.
The tagline ‘Don’t Miss The Starting’, other than Sriram’s choice, was additionally retained formally as part of the title as a result of there was one other movie referred to as Badlapur Boys. The Makers of the Varun Dhawan-starrer couldn’t title the movie Badlapur except they added one thing to it.
Badlapur was not initially meant to be even the title! It was used solely as a working title, however the makers obtained constructive suggestions from inside the crew and therefore retained it.

Sriram, in an interview to Hindustan Occasions, had revealed that Varun’s casting as Raghav Purohit within the movie occurred by chance. “I had simply completed narrating the premise of Badlapur to Dinesh, and I bear in mind caring about whether or not he likes it or not. Simply then, Varun referred to as him and came visiting. To get a response from one other individual, I narrated the script to Varun too. As I used to be narrating it, I may see him getting an increasing number of excited. We hadn’t even informed him that we’d contemplate him for the function at this level. After that day, Varun referred to as me daily and talked about how he feels a sure scene could be executed,” he had mentioned.

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