Ajay Devgn’s look in Rohit Shetty’s Singham has been the talk of the town for quite some time now. The Raajneeti actor, who plays a sturdy cop in the action thriller had to train under the watchful eyes of Prashant Sawant for three months to achieve the "manly" look that the director required.
Says Shetty, "We’ve tried to achieve for Ajay the physique of a man who could bash up 20 people, if he so wished. It’s not a six pack look. Anyone can achieve that with injections and steroids. The manliness has to come through as he plays a tough cop who is from a village on the Maharastra Goa border. It is a raw action film filled with hand to hand combat scenes, something one rarely gets to see in movies in this day and age of high gadgetry."
And the end product was a result of much hard work put in by the star as well as his trainer. "Ajay plays a very tough cop. He needed to look the part by losing weight, developing more cuts on his body and appear more lean and muscular. After training for an hour and half, I oversaw his diet and made sure he maintained a high protein low carb diet every three hours. I then had him do a rigorous combination of weights and circuit super sets that incorporated all techniques including push ups and pull ups," reveals Prashant.
But as Sawant himself admits, the task was barely difficult for the action hero. "Ajay has a great body and he has always been a fitness freak. It’s not difficult for him to maintain it," says Prashant.
-MovieTalkies
