Shocker! bet you didn't know that this young star is so
vulnerable
Incredible but true. Bollywood's hearthrob, Varun
Dhawan, had once contemplated suicide on being
rejected by his girlfriend.
He had thought of slashing his wrists and worse, after
plunging into a state of depression on breaking up with a
girl from HR college whom he had dated steadily for four
years in his teenaged days.
Mercifully, his parents and brother did not pry into his
death wish mood. Instead, they encouraged him to take
off for a getaway trip to Goa and then to pursue studies
in UK's Nottingham University. Neither helped to pull the
then introverted Varun, from his chronic depression.
The girl in question is none other than fashionista
Natasha Dalal, whom he is once again dating steadily,
and obviously considers the love of his life. What about
Alia Bhatt, his Student of the Year co-star, whom he
has been often linked with? Logic would indicate that she
is one of those classic "good friends". After all, she had
inaugurated Natasha's fashion outlet a while back.
Apparently Natasha's family, located in South Bombay,
had objected to Varun since he came from a film family.
Instead, they had chosen a prospective groom from a
family of their acquaintance. Varun was distraught on
seeing the girl he loved with her intended groom at the
Trident Hotel and at the Prive club.
Varun could not think of even "touching" another girl. At
home, he would listen to the Meat Loaf song "I'd do
anything for love.." repeatedly. Neither could he forget
their dates at Juhu's Shiv Sagar restaurant where they
would order either masala cheese dosas or pizzas. She
would pay, since he didn't have any source of income
then. He would drop her at Santa Cruz railway station so
she could get home at a decent hour to Churchgate.
Varun's story has been a real life case of love at first
sight. As soon as he had seen her at HR college, he had
borrowed a red rose from a girl on the campus and
handed it over to Natasha.
Eventually, the actor now 28, realized that he was a
narcissist wallowing in self-pity' and turned towards
focusing on his career as soon as he was offered Student
of the Year by Karan Johar. Overnight, a star was born.
In the film, Varun's character, Rohan Nanda, didn't get
the girl at the end. In real life, though, he is back with his
first and perhaps only love.
And we are not concocting any of these details. They are
to be found in a little read short story written by Varun
Dhawan himself. Only in the short story, for the sake of
discretion, the girl's name had been altered from
Natasha to Nupur.
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