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Border 2 producer Nidhi Dutta calls out paid smear campaign against Varun Dhawan: ‘Hope the audiences shame these people’

Updated On: 08 January, 2026 05:11 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

Border 2 producer Nidhi Dutta has slammed trolls questioning Varun Dhawan’s casting in the film, calling it a paid smear campaign. Defending the actor, she urged audiences to identify and shame those deliberately targeting him ahead of the film’s release

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Nidhi Dutta and Varun Dhawan

Nidhi Dutta and Varun Dhawan

Varun Dhawan is currently gearing up for the release of Border 2. While the song and teaser received a positive response, a section of netizens is questioning Varun’s casting in the film. An X user claimed that the actor is being targeted and that a paid smear campaign is going on against him. Border 2 producer Nidhi Dutta took to X to slam people.

Nidhi Dutta slams those targeting Varun Dhawan

The X account named CineHub tweeted, “The LATEST TARGET of this paid smear campaign is Varun Dhawan. Certain Instagram influencers are clearly doing this on instructions, running a full-fledged agenda to malign Varun in Border 2… From BODY-SHAMING to selectively targeting his expressions, everything feels forced!! Especially when his performance is actually perfectly suited for the film. This dirty game needs to STOP because no matter what Border 2 is gonna take BUMPER START EVERYWHERE.”

Replying to it, Dutta wrote, “Congratulations to all the ANTI-NATIONALS THAT CAN PAY TO BRING DOWN AN ACTOR PLAYING A PVC OF THIS COUNTRY. This is YOUR FILM INDIA! Hope the audiences find and shame these people (sic).”

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