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Pankaj Tripathi lost weight to play farmer in Kaagaz
Updated On: 11 November, 2018 10:27 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Essaying a farmer's role in a movie after playing a flamboyant superstar in another film led actor Pankaj Tripathi to a bit of physical transformation
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Essaying a farmer's role in a movie after playing a flamboyant superstar in another film led actor Pankaj Tripathi to a bit of physical transformation. Soon after wrapping up the biopic Shakeela in Bengaluru, Pankaj was asked to shed some weight to look like a farmer from a small town of Uttar Pradesh for his next film Kaagaz, written and directed by veteran Satish Kaushik.
The actor says he had received a brief on the character that he is supposed to play and accordingly he prepared himself to look a bit similar. "My look will be different in Kaagaz. After finishing Shakeela, I didn't get much time to prepare myself to play Bharat Lal. So, practically whatever time I got in my hands, I prepared myself to look like a farmer from a small town. Instead of hitting the gym, I took to the organic way to lose my weight.
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