We’ve seen actors and actresses going to extreme lengths to ‘feel’ and ‘live’ the characters they’re playing. Not taking bath to going bald! Take for instance Saif Ali Khan, who apparently did not brush his teeth for days to acquire the stained look for Langda Tyagi in Omkara or how Rajkummar Rao apparently did not bathe for 20 days to bring Hamari Adhuri Kahaani’s Hari to life.
When method acting and a perfectionist attitude come together, the effects are quite startling. A case in point is Aamir Khan. The actor, who plays the wrestler Mahavir Phogat in his next film Dangal, has beefed up to look the character. Undergoing intense physical changes, the actor who weighed 68kgs, now weighs 98kg.
Aamir is facing difficulty in bending, and he needs someone to help him every time he has to put on his socks and or shoelaces!
About the preparation for his role, Aamir says, “Right now, I am learning wrestling and Haryanvi, and putting on weight. So, you can say I am in full prep mode,” adding that he feels he has put on “enough weight” for his part. “Currently, I am at my heaviest. I weigh 90kgs, which is a lot for a person of my height,” he adds.
The irony of the whole weight issue is that he has to once again lose all of it to play a younger 27-year-old version in the same film! “I don’t think I need [to put on] any more weight, because I have to lose it all to play a 27-year-old man in the same film. So, the heavier I get, the tougher it will be for me to cut down later on.”
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