Varun Dhawan is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film Bawaal, for which his "strong" reference point was his Jug Jugg Jeeyo co-star Anil Kapoor. 

Talking about the prerequisites of working on an intense theme, Varun, in conversation with IANS, said: "I did not find it emotionally that intense for me; it was just getting into the skin of the character in the beginning. Just finding Ajju in the beginning on how he would talk or walk and then everything … like I said, he was so away from me that it was not like any of me would get mixed in it."

Varun shared that the scenes having him fight and argue with Janhvi Kapoor's character in the film were fine to do, but when it came to emotions, director Nitesh Tiwari would step in. 

"I seriously feel it's great to come to a place and say, 'I did this and did that', but when you are working with someone so good, your work gets easy."

He added: "I have one very strong reference for my character, Anil Kapoor. I do not like mimicking him, but I'd just worked with him, so there was a part of his personality which I find funny and loving.”

Bawaal is all set to release on July 21 on Prime Video.