Varun Dhawan's film Baby John was produced with a budget of 180 crores of rupees, but it earned less than Rs 50 crores at the box office. Rajpal Yadav said in a recent interview that Baby John's box office failure could have been avoided if people hadn't seen Theri.

Varun Dhawan’s foray into mass action with Baby John did not unfold as he had hoped. The film turned out to be a massive box-office failure, falling far short of recovering its costs. While Varun has remained silent about the debacle,

The actor purchased one property on the 6th floor and another on the 7th floor in a premium residential project.

Varun Dhawan-starrer Baby John failed miserably at the box office. The film was a remake of Vijay-starrer Theri and it has been said that Theri's availability in dubbed version was a reason for Baby John's failure.

Varun Dhawan has been the talk of the town ever since his film had hit the theatres. We are talking about Baby John which is an action drama also starring Wamiqa Gabbi, Keerthy Suresh, Jackie Shroff and Sanya Malhotra in the lead.

Varun discussed the adoption process, saying, "There was a definite purpose why Atlee presented this film to us. In order to use it as an adaptation rather than a true remake, we had to change a lot of the topography.