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Updated On: 25 October, 2023 07:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
Set to feature as himself in a film based on him, fitness influencer Guru Mann traces the events that led him to becoming an educator
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Guru Mann
It’s one thing to turn up for a look test when you are set to portray an individual for a cinematic adaptation, and another when that individual is, in fact, you. As fate would have it, Guru Mann found himself braving an ironic situation. When the offer to play himself in a film based on his life came his way, he wondered if he had the acting chops to pull it off. “But the makers had seen my YouTube videos, and were convinced that I could do so. I had to undergo a look test though,” he says matter-of-factly.
The fitness influencer, who boasts a whopping 6.3 million follower-count, is considered one of the early wellness enthusiasts to have leveraged social media to make a name for himself. It was a chance encounter with a foreigner at a gym that turned his attention towards the need for a fitness platform in India. “She came to me and said she liked my skin colour and athleticism. She asked if I was Italian or Middle Eastern, and was surprised to learn that I belonged to India. I recall, she said that while she meant well, she had never seen an Indian who was as fit as I was. I was upset to hear that, but when I did my research, I realised that India was the top country [on a list of] countries with health issues, and that by 2030, we will be the sickest country in the world. That is when I started working on the mission in India,” says Mann, who upon his arrival in the country in 2014, found support in T-Series to create his channel.
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