Mumbai, June 19 -- Varun Dhawan, who is known to work long and hard if needed to get into the skin of his character, will slip into prep mode for filmmaker Sriram Raghavan's Ekkis soon. Till the end of 2020, Varun was busy shooting for Raj Mehta's Jug Jugg Jeeyo with Kiara Advani, Anil Kapoor, and Neetu Kapoor and now the actor is all set to start prep for his next - Ekkis.

Talking about Ekkis, director Sriram said, "We have been prepping for the film as much as possible. The pre-production work has been on, but now we have to work around the new scheme of things. Weather-wise, we would have liked to start the film last September and wrap up by now, but the lockdown just pushed everything ahead."

The director, who had earlier worked wit...