While talking about his film 'October', director Shoojit Sircar said that people asked him, "How did you make Varun Dhawan act?" "I tell them, 'Yes, he's not my kind of an actor'...I'd seen glimpses of 'Badlapur'...I think he's fantastic, he also doesn't know that," said Shoojit. He added that he cast Varun after seeing his clumsiness and "weird" behaviour.