Aamir Khan: I have four months to get to 9% body fat

Bollywood’s Perfectionist Aamir Khan has put on much weight for his upcoming biopic Dangal. The Khan will be depicting the role of Mahavir Phogat a wrestler. To add authenticity to his role as a wrestler and father to grown daughters in the biopic, Aamir Khan had put on a on 30 kilos. But he will have to lose the weight that he has piled on for a portion of the movie.

Aamir Khan said, “We start shooting in September. September, October, November, December, four months we shoot. Then, I have to lose weight.”

He further added that, “I prefer the other way round. I have four months in which to get to nine percent body fat. Again come back to nine per cent, the look I had in Dhoom:3. That’s the other part of the look. So I’ll shoot that in May. It will take me four months, January, February, March, April to get into shape. So in that period of getting back into shape, I won’t be able to shoot. That’s when I will hear scripts, read scripts to plan for the future.”

We wonder if this piling on weight and drastically losing it within so short a time span is not harmful in the long run.