EXCLUSIVE: Kartik Aaryan reveals why Chandu Champion is the most challenging film of his career; shares his diet plans

Actor Kartik Aaryan went through an extensive workout and diet plan for his upcoming movie Chandu Champion. Ever since the trailer was released, fans were amazed to see Kartik’s dedication to building a body like never before. He not only ditched sugar for the role but also underwent an intense workout for the movie. Kartik essays the role of India’s first Paralympic gold medallist Murlikant Petkar and it comes with its own share of challenges. Speaking of which, Kartik revealed that playing a real-life character gets difficult as his achievements are unreal to play onscreen.

Kartik Aaryan on doing a biopic with Chandu Champion

When asked about the difficulties he had to face during the shoot of the film, the Shehzada actor told us, “I think it is challenging because there are a lot of responsibilities for you. The things that he has achieved in his life are quite unreal and to play that altogether gets a little difficult. When someone works in a biopic, they play with one sport or they focus on their one big moment. With him, there are plenty of moments and incidents and he plays an ample amount of sports which we wanted to show on celluloid but it seemed like many movies were playing together in this one movie.

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“I did a lot of things for the first time and got to learn new things. If you club together the chronicles of his journey, not just in sports, but his army life and normal life then you will see it becomes a multi-genre biopic which was a difficult subject for me. I was anyway doing a movie out of my comfort zone and this movie was something that taught me a lot.“

Kartik Aaryan reveals his diet plan

When asked what he ate and what he had to sacrifice for Chandu Champion, Kartik said, “Wheat, rice, sweets, chocolates, ice cream, burgers, pizza, etc. I had to stop eating a lot of things for the role. The food that I was eating was in small quantities that I didn’t even consider an appetizer. I used to have soup and little fruits, I used to have cauliflower rice, beans, salads, and tofu and I used to eat these for 1-1.5 years. Yes, there were no cheat meals, no Sundays for me, every day was working for me in terms of diet, working out.“

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