Written By: Nirmalya Dutta | Updated : June 4, 2014 10:54 AM IST
Life is tough in Bollywood as Priyanka Chopra found out the hard way. After working out hard to portray a boxer with muscles in Mary Kom's upcoming biopic, she had to lose all that hard-earned weight to play the part of a suave Punjabi businesswoman. The Times of India reports that the actress trained hard to play Mary Kom which included training with boxer Jharana Sanghavi for the past year. However, she had to lose it all to for her role in Zoya Akhtar's Dil Dhadakne Do which sees her aboard a cruise liner sailing through Europe.
The scary thing was that Priyanka only had 20 days to knock off the weight gained over the past year and again turned to Jharna to achieve her goals. Jharana told TOI: 'It's usually not easy and advisable to cut down six-seven kilos in just 15-20 days. But boxers can lose that much in about 20 days with the right weight training and activities like skipping, running and a controlled their diet because they are trained for it. Priyanka did just that.'
'Priyanka's diet included a lot of carbohydrates then. So her weight shot up. And from the day she completed her shoot, I put her on a protein rich diet and eliminated carbohydrates. Regular exercises and run ning for at least 30 minutes helped too,' says Jharna.
Dil Dhadakne Do stars Priyanka along with Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Anil Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar.
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