Nimrat Kaur reacts to trolls’ criticism over gaining weight for Dasvi: People made my ‘larger than usual’ body their business

Many actors have been subjected to body shaming and people trolling for their weight gain. Among many, actor Nimrat Kaur falls prey to the brutal criticism due to her weight gain during the shoot of Dasvi. In the film, she played the role of Bimla, wife of Abhishek Bachchan. For her character, she had gained almost 15 kilos. Nimrat even shared her psychical transformation video on social media while elegantly shutting down the trolls, saying how her weight gain became their business. Mentioning that people have some heightened expectations regarding gender, age and profession, she penned an impactful letter recalling her experience of becoming Bimla for Dasvi.

Talking about gaining weight for Dasvi, Nimrat wrote, “Born with what’s typically categorised a small to a medium body type, with Dasvi came the requirement for me to size ‘up’. The idea being to be as unrecognisable and physically as dissimilar from ‘being Nimrat’ as possible. There was no target number in mind, but by the end of trying to achieve the desired visual impact, I was a touch above 15 kilos from my usual body weight. Initially, I was rather petrified of an unseen reality I was going to have to own and embrace. But as I steadily and lovingly along with the support and encouragement of my loved ones around me began right conversations with myself, I began relishing the process of becoming Bimla.”

The Airlift actor further talked about the trolls and added, “On purpose, not always would I declare the ‘why’ behind what I was looking like or consuming. But always did I observe the ease with which people made my ‘larger than usual’ body and/or meal their business. I could’ve been unwell, under medication, hormonally battling something, or quite simply very happy to eat and be me whatever size that was.”

 

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Kaur also mentioned that she is back to her old physical being. “Be kind. Be sensitive. Be graceful. Don’t make someone’s day worse if you can’t make it better. Be responsible. Make only your mind and body your business. No one else’s” concluded Nimrat Kaur.

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