Actor Varun Dhawan, son of filmmaker David Dhawan, along with filmmaker Karan Johar and actor Saif Ali Khan, sparked the controversy over the nepotism debate at the IIFA 2017 Awards in New York.Later, all three of them received flak on social media with twitteraties calling their act "disappointing". When Varun joined the two actors on stage at the Metlife Stadium to receive the Best Performance in a Comic Role for "Dishoom", Saif joked that the actor had made it big in the industry because of his father.
