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Bikram gets 80 kgs fatter for Marathon |
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
 Imagine the physically fit Bikram Saluja overweight by 80 kgs. That’s exactly the way the actor looks in Marathon, the film that marks the debut of Nisha Chainani as a director.
Explaining the character in the film Bikram said, "I play a rich businessman who is extremely fat. He is about to crack a business deal at the conference table. However, there’s a hitch. His colleagues feel his overweight body will prove to be a hazard and they share their apprehensions in going ahead with the deal. He takes their doubt as a challenge and tells them that he will lose weight and also participate in a marathon. The minute he says this, he is made fun of and laughed at, but he proves them wrong."
Making preparations to appear physically overweight on screen was a tough task for Bikram. "Since I am physically fit, to look excessively fat was not possible for me. I could not suddenly do things or go on an eating binge so as to appear too fat. The director and I then decided to use a body suit to appear weighty," he said.
Bikram informs that to lend authenticity to the fat character he wore weights around his ankle so as to have the slow paced lethargic movements that fat people are usually associated with.
"The weights tied around my ankles help me acquire the posture and the walk that is usually associated with fat people," he said. Prosthetic artistes Pradeep and Monty, worked on Bikram’s face to make it appear plump and bloated. He added, "Pradeep, Monty and I would sit to do the makeup early in the morning. It would take three hours to complete it. So we would start at around 6 am to be ready for the 9 am schedule."
Bikram says that playing this kind of a role was a lesson in itself. "I realised that if one decides to achieve something then nothing is impossible for him," he said. |
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