Overview
- Varun Dhawan told Bombay Times in an interview published Sunday, June 7, that “ninety percent” of actors are lonely and that he has deliberately refused to adopt a separate public façade to protect his mental health.
- He singled out Salman Khan’s recent late‑night Instagram selfies as an example of being unfiltered, saying the posts show the superstar “going into another zone” and reassure him about authenticity.
- The interview referenced an earlier episode in which Salman confronted paparazzi after leaving a hospital and the photographers later apologized, a sequence outlets reported last month and that Varun used as context for his remarks.
- Varun warned that social media has made actors more self‑conscious and raised the threat of being “cancelled,” but said he prefers to speak plainly rather than maintain a polished public image.
- The comments draw on long ties between Varun, Salman and filmmaker David Dhawan and feed a wider conversation about celebrity privacy, the mental toll of constant visibility, and how online behavior reshapes public expectations.