Twitter and Insta world went abuzz when the picture of a beefed up Ranbir Kapoor posing in the gym with his trainer came out. We were shocked with such a transformation of the normally lean Ranbir, and some of us did think that it was even photoshopped. But no, it is really Ranbir Kapoor, and that’s one macho look, dude.
There was another misconception that the look was for the Sanjay Dutt biopic. However, his trainer Kunal Gir, revealed in an interview to ScoopWhoop News that he has never mentioned in his insta post that it was for the Sanjay Dutt biopic as we presumed. Instead, it was a test look for Dragon, the superhero movie that is directed by Ayan Mukherji. He said “I never mentioned in the caption of the picture that it is one of Ranbir Kapoor‘s transformation for Sanjay Dutt bipoic. People made that assumption. See, Raj Kumar Hirani’s film had body building shots and so we had to recreate gym sequences. During the shoot, Ranbir had gained 14 kilos. It was all done to make him look age appropriate. Whereas, if I talk about the latest picture of Ranbir Kapoor that I had uploaded recently, the transformation has been done for a look test for Ayan Mukherji’s film Dragon. He had to shed 8 kilos to look leaner and harder for the same.”
He also revealed how they brought about that look for Ranbir, “As far as Ranbir’s transformation is concerned, he was 70 kg initially right after he finished working on Jagga Jasoos. We had to build a foundation for his transformation so had split the phases into three. During the first phase, where we had to give him bulky look, Ranbir lifted heavy weights along with 7 to 8 meals a day. Ranbir had never eaten so much in his entire life. We even had to wake him up at night for his meals. Then came the second phase, where we had leaned him down. The last phase was to make him look ripped. So then, from 8 we had to cut down to only 4 meals a day along with a rigorous cardio session.”
Well, we have to say, good job bro! Let’s hope this one gets confirmed for Dragon. The movie also stars Alia Bhatt in the lead.