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Ahaan Panday’s onscreen father, actor Varun Badola recently caught everyone’s attention with his comment on the promotional team of Saiyaara going overboard to generate buzz around the movie. The actor has now backtracked from his words. Soon after Saiyaara’s release, several videos emerged on social media showcasing fans going into a frenzy after watching the movie. People cried, fainted, proposed and danced in theater halls out of excitement and love towards the movie. In this context, Varun Badola recently commented on the movie’s promotional strategy.

Varun Badola, during an interview with SCREEN, said, “By the third or fourth day, the film was being talked about. I saw the euphoria on Instagram. Log jo chudiyaan tod rahe hai, chaatiyaan peet rahe hai (People were breaking their bangles, beating themselves). I think the promotions team went a little overboard there, where people are going to see the film, putting IV drips. Those people must have been told to give content in some way; thank god, people didn’t get their legs broken and went crawling to see the film.”

 
 
 
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It seems like the actor has backpedalled and has a new version of his statements to clarify what he meant. Varun Badola took to his Instagram stories to upload screenshots of several articles that misunderstood his words. Posting the photos, he wrote, "This is a complete misinterpretation and misrepresentation of my words. This is malicious in its intent to tarnish a film like Saiyaara that has been receiving unanimous love from everyone.”

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Varun Badola's Instagram story.

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Earlier, Saiyaara’s director Mohit Suri told Zoom that the response they have received is all organic and they don’t have any involvement in it. He said, “We have tried to be honest all through this film. People think the viral theatre videos were created, but we have not done that."

These two opposite comments from two individuals who have worked in the same movie as an actor and a director sparked controversy. Now, Varun Badola has defended his point and explained that his words were totally misunderstood.