Now Veer Savarkar, previously Sarbjit... Why does Randeep Hooda starve himself to get into the skin of his characters? Here’s what he told Brut…
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00:27Whether it's Ravana's reign or the British's reign...
00:30There will always be a death.
00:51I'm the one who's apologizing?
00:53Are you here to show us some respect?
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01:15Have you done something wrong?
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01:35Do you believe in fate?
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01:46You have a person who lives in a dark room
01:51with chains on his wrists and ankles for 18 years.
01:57What would he go through?
01:58And he was surviving on a roti.
02:00So I thought, why not, you know, just test that.
02:04So I starved myself.
02:05Was that easy for you?
02:06No, I dropped 30 kilos in all and lost 18.
02:13Because the more weight I lost, the more I stopped eating,
02:16the better I looked.
02:17I said, it can't be looking like Brad Pitt in this.
02:19Because all the fat would go, you know, only muscles.
02:22So I started looking like, you know, Brad Pitt from Fight Club.
02:27And I said, this won't do, man.
02:30It gave me a lot. It gave me a lot emotionally.
02:33Gave me a lot of how, you know, he must have felt deprived of things.
02:37I went crazy. I went mad.
02:39You know, that solitude can kill you.
02:42And then my mother was also here and she left.
02:48She said, I can't see you do this.
02:49Because she started trying to stop me.
02:50She'll make things that I like and, you know, eat.
02:54Why are you killing yourself?
02:55So then she just left back to Haryana and said, I can't take this anymore.
03:01I guess that was my homage to the character that I was playing.
03:08I really felt it was worth the effort.