Randeep Hooda shares his weight loss journey as he reveals losing 32 kilos for Swatantrya Veer Savarkar
Actor Randeep Hooda who played Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his biopic Swatantrya Veer Savarkar ensured to leave no stones unturned with his directorial debut. From getting the facts right to going through a mega transformation for the…
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PublishedMarch 23, 2024 · 11:38 pm
UpdatedJune 16, 2026 · 1:33 am
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Actor Randeep Hooda who played Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his biopic Swatantrya Veer Savarkar ensured to leave no stones unturned with his directorial debut. From getting the facts right to going through a mega transformation for the movie, Randeep went to an extreme to make it look genuine. Speaking of which, Randeep Hooda recently shocked the internet with his weight loss transformation by sharing a skinny picture of himself.
Randeep Hooda on his weight loss journey
Now, during an interview with Pinkvilla, the Kick actor revealed that he had to lose around 32 kilos for the role. “Being starving and underweight as an actor is a luxury, being starving and underweight as a director is a curse. Because you lose patience, you don’t have patience and you’re hungry. People are having lunch breaks, evening nashta breaks, that break and you’re just a person sitting there hungry. When you’re hungry you have more energy. So that was a very big thing which I think everybody suffered from me as a hangry person on set. I had lost about 30 to 32 kilos by the end of it,” Randeep said.
Image source: Randeep Hooda Instagram
He added, “It was very very challenging. One thing that happens to every human being is that they lose patience when they’re starving. That’s the first thing that happens and you get too much energy and you say something even softly but it comes across (differently).”
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar is not the only movie where he underwent a massive weight loss transformation. For the 2016 film ‘Sarabjit’, Randeep Hooda had lost 20kg in 28 days.
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