Mouni Roy Faces Social Media Heat Over *Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai* Role

Mouni Roy hit by some serious social media heat after that trailer for Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai dropped. It featured her playing Varun Dhawan’s fake mother. The trolls went absolutely wild. They slammed the casting choice, of course. Age gap. Everyone was pointing it out. Mouni is forty now. Varun is just a year younger than her.
She finally broke the silence on all that noise, telling News18 for the first time about it. She said she couldn't do anything about the trolling. She didn’t care what people were saying. It became too big. How could the makers do this to her? But she knew what she had done in the film. She knew her director was happy. And everyone else she worked with, they were happy too.
She sounded genuinely thrilled about working on that comic caper instead. She’s a huge David Dhawan fan. His films are basically her comfort watch. He even said this would be his last film. It’s funny because this is also the first time Mouni was really diving into comedy. A sharp turn away from those femme fatale, supernatural roles she usually plays.
She mentioned they kept her away from all the promotions. She called it a good move. Made people curious. Like, what exactly was happening in the film?
But even when talking about the movie itself, she admitted she was taken aback by the role. When Mukesh Chhabra first called her about it, and he mentioned the part his mother? That was the immediate reaction. Then she went and took a narration from David sir and Farhad Samji , the writer.
That narration really left her split. She decided she wanted to do it anyway. She laughed so hard! Just imagine Varun calling Maniesh and saying, ‘I don’t want Mom’s call, I want the whole mother. Like Nirupa Roy.’ Then you see me walk in. Where someone else is telling Jimmy sir’s character, ‘Is this not enough for a mother?’
And then there was the actual scene details floating around. The next thing Varun says to Maniesh is something like, ‘Nirupa Roy asked, why did you come looking like Mouni Roy?’ And suddenly I'm just there in short dresses, or even a bikini. Varun says, ‘Mom, Mom!’
Meanwhile, on the personal side of things, things got messy too. Mouni and Suraj Nambiar announced they had split up. They put out a joint statement online. Asked for privacy while they sort this out. They also touched on all the circulation of what they called fictitious narratives and blatant falsehoods. Said those stories don't reflect how they actually are.
Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board
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