Randeep Hooda's hunger games

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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00:00🎶

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?

00:57🎶

01:15Have you done something wrong?

01:16🎶

01:35Do you believe in fate?

01:38🎶

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.