Varun also seemed to be obsessed with Arjun Kapoor, who is also his close friend and Anil Kapoor’s nephew. Varun named Arjun for Karan Johar’s questions like ‘who is obsessed with gossiping?’, ‘who is most likely to choose the wrong script?’, and ‘who would be flirting with strangers?’
Raj Mehta directed ‘Jugjugg Jeeyo’ performed decently at the box office, the film raked in Rs 78 crore nett at the end of its theatrical run. The family drama starred Anil Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Neetu Kapoor and Kiara Advani in lead roles. Speaking about the slew of recent Bollywood flops, Varun had told PTI, “The film business in general needs to pull up its socks too. The amount of flops that Hollywood has given, if you count the number, it is huge. The amount of films which have done badly in the South… (please) count. Our industry got hit. Going to the theatres is a public outing, which also got hit. That habit got hit. We are re-establishing that connection now. Can we make better films? Of course yes.”