Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS): All attention is on how actor Varun Dhawan has tried to come out of his comfort zone with dark, intense revenge drama “Badlapur”. But for him, the real heroes of the movie are its director Sriram Raghavan and producer Dinesh Vijan.

Varun, who has shed his guy next door image for the role of a vengeful husband, took to micro-blogging site Twitter to praise the team behind making the film into a reality.

“The entire team has worked very hard but sriram Raghvan and Dino are the real heroes who made this film...Jai sriram dino#badlapur,” he tweeted.

The actor added that the surprise element and thrill made him pick the project, which hit the theatres Friday.

“Today is the day. All I can say is I did #badlapur because I felt you guys would be shocked and entertained to watch a film like that,” he added.

"Badlapur" also features Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte in key roles.