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Was worried about doing role close to my age in Dangal: Aamir Khan

The actor talks about what went into the shooting of Nitesh Tiwari's film.

By :  R Ayyappan
Update: 2016-07-05 06:27 GMT
Aamir Khan, who launched his upcoming film Dangal poster last evening, was initially in two minds about playing wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat as he had to look old. Photo: Viral Bhayani
Aamir, who is gearing up for the release of the film in December, is yet to sign another film.
Aamir further added, \"I had great team including my nutritionist and trainer - Rakesh and Rahul Bhatt. I was training even when I was fat it is difficult to train that time. Both pushed me to work hard.\"
According to Aamir, gaining weight was much easier than losing it. \"It is easy to gain weight. One can eat all tasty food items. I had it for six months. I enjoyed process of gaining weight. Then came the task to lose it,\" he said.
\"I told Nitesh I am doing this because if we shoot old portion later I will not have a reason to lose 97-100 kg weight. The reason to lose weight will be for this film (Dangal), there will be pressure and goal to reduce the weight. So we did reverse thing started with gaining weight for old look and then losing it for young look,\" he added.
Aamir said he requested Tiwari to shoot the older version of the character first. \"My only request to Nitesh (Tiwari) was... I was fit that time so we could have gone in order by shooting young portion first then old look. I wanted Nitesh to shoot old part first where I had to gain weight and then young portion later,\" he said.
The story of the biopic, however, moved the actor so much that he decided to do it. \"Then I asked Nitesh Tiwari (director) to meet and felt I should just do the film and not think about anything. I have faith in my audience that they will understand that whatever look I have is for a film and I am just being honest to it (the role). I just followed my heart,\" he added.
The 51-year-old star felt that he could do \"Dangal\" after a few years. \"I felt I can do this film after five-six or eight-ten years. I felt practically I shouldn't do the film but my heart felt I should do it.\"
\"For 'Dangal' I had to play a 55-year-old man which is closer to my real life age. I was worried about that. As I was playing young parts in (other) films and for 'Dangal' I will have to play an old man, be fat, grey hair. So, I was worried about my future,\" Aamir told reporters here at the movie's poster launch.
The actor talks about what went into the shooting of Nitesh Tiwari's film.

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