Darrell Foster on how he turned Farhan into a lean fighting machine

Updated On: 22 January, 2020 07:28 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla

Preparing Farhan Akhtar to seamlessly 'disappear' from before the opponent on the set of Toofan, top Hollywood trainer Darrell Foster on making him a convincing boxer.

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At one point during our conversation with Darrell Foster, the world-class fighter and fitness maverick abruptly flings a few coins on the wooden floor of his vanity van, a few feet away from a suburban venue, where the shooting of a boxing scene for Farhan Akhtar's Toofan is set to commence. The clamorous interruption evidently has us startled, and it is at this point that Foster would deliver upon us his winning blow, had we been in a physical bout with him. Hollywood's go-to person when the sport of boxing needs to be replicated for reel, Foster is responding to our questions pertaining to his E2: Enlightenment and Exercise program, which focuses on training the brain, just as much as one does the body, for boxing. It's also the method he employed to build Akhtar into the physical genius he seems to have become if his Instagram posts are anything to go by.

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