Aamir Khan, Salman Khan: Actors who put on weight for movies

Bollywood is an industry where actors are known to raise the bar with the amount of efforts they put in for their roles. In an industry where everyone is concerned about looking a certain way and obsessing over abs, there are actors who do not shy away from gaining weight for their roles in films. Thus, here is the list of actors who gained weight for playing a certain role in their films.

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Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan, who is known for his perfection made a great impact on the audiences and also at the box office with the role that he played in Dangal. For Dangal, the actor had to put on a lot of weight to look in sync with the character that he was playing. He carried the weight with excellence making the movie a huge hit worldwide. Aamir played the role of Mahavir Singh Phogat, father of Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari. 

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Salman Khan

Salman Khan has been in the industry for more than two decades. He has been portraying various kinds of roles ever since his debut. He has done all kinds of movies including action, romance, comedy, drama, family films and fitted in the characters perfectly. For his movie Sultan, Salman Khan had gained weight and muscles with rigorous training and exercise regime. The actor had spent hours at the gym for workout sessions so that he could obtain the figure that the role in the movie demanded.

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Bhumi Pednekar

Bhumi Pednekar might not be a very popular name in Bollywood, but her debut movie Dum Laga Ke Haisha garnered a  lot of appreciation from everyone. In the movie, Bhumi played the role of an overweight married woman, who tries to win the attention of her husband and finally succeeds at it. Though she was already overweight before the movie, Bhumi still gained 12 kilos more to do justice to the role that she was playing in the movie. Bhumi also won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for Dum Laga Ke Haisha.

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