Super-hit "Bhediya" hero" Varun Dhawan, is all set to impress with his impactful dual lead role in action-drama-emotional thriller movie Baby John, releasing on Christmas Day (Wednesday, Dec 25th) Although an action-thriller emotional and revenge drama --the family entertainer film Baby John also has an intense emotional track and is presented by "Jawaan" fame director Atlee (actual name Arun Kumar) is directed by Atlee"s former assistant talented Kalees (A. Kaleeswaran) and is co-produced by Priya Atlee and Murad Khetani. With Jackie Shroff as the main khatarnaak khalnayak "Babbar Sher, with glam-beautiful heroines Keerthy Suresh and Wamiqa Gabbi and child artiste Zara Zyanna (as Varun-Keerthy"s daughter) there is also pop-singer actor Diljit Dosanjh in a cameo singing Nain Matakka. The cherry on the filmy X"mas cake is mega-star Salman Khan in a surprise cameo role The charismatic macho star actor Varun (of recent Amazon Prime Video spy action-thriller series "Citadel-Honey Bunny" fame) spoke about releasing Baby John on Christmas Day and mentioned that no other big-budget Hindi film had released in cinema theatres after blockbuster Pushpa 2 The Rule released on December 05th 2024.and has literally been ruling the box-office till date. ever since its release Speaking about "Baby John releasing on Christmas, Varun Dhawan said that traditionally, it was Aamir Khan who would always prefer to release most of his movies around lucky date December 25th Continued Varun,” I always had this dream-wish that at least one film of mine should release on Christmas. Day We had to really fight and struggle to get this date. Historically, on this date, Aamir-Sir used to release a lot of films. We are all thankful to Aamir-Sir for giving us this precious lucky festival date, this year”, . Perfectionist Aamir Khan had previously planned and declared that his home-production film Sitaare Zameen Par (directed by R S Prasanna) would be releasing on 25th December 2024. Recently at the Red Sea International Film Festival, Aamir confirmed that the film will now release only during next year (in 2025). Varun Dhawan also spoke excitedly about Salman"s surprise cameo in the film. Salman was one of Varun"s guiding figures during his early years in the movies and has worked in several movies with Varun"s father David Dhawan. Recalling his interaction on the sets, imitating Salman's style of talking Varun said, “Salman just said, "Baby John, bada ho gaya hai, baby", I don"t know if that was a compliment.” laughed Varun. It is important for readers and movie-fans to know that Baby in "Baby John; does not refer to the child-artiste Zara (her character is called "Khushi") who plays the young screen-daughter of Varun-Keerthy.. In his dual role earlier Varun as DCP Satya Verma and later after quitting the police force he shifts to Kerala and there he changes his name-identity to localized Baby John to prevent villain Babbar Sher and his gang from locating him.. Incidentally, “Baby" is also a common name and surname in Kerala, especially among the Christian community, "It needs to be mentioned that Baby John is a Hindi adaptation of the super-hit 2016 Tamil action-thriller movie "Theri" ( means-spark) which was directed by Atlee. (of SRK movie Pathaan' fame)--- who is now only the Producer of the 2024 Hindi version. Baby John-- director Kalees with sr film journalist Chaitanya Padukone Read also: Pratyancha Narale Manifesting 2025 Wish to Work with Vicky Kaushal "Half Love Half Arrange" Team Plays a Fun Rapid Fire! 'Phir Hera Pheri, Tabu and Akshay will be seen together in 'Bhoot Bangla' Allu Arjun's father reached the hospital to meet Hyderabad stampede victims