‘I lost 54 kilos in five months’
Uday Chopra and Hrithik Roshan, (Sikandar’s childhood friends) were the first ones to point out that he had begun to look thinner than before. When Sikandar was all of 16 years, he was to attend an acting workshop in the month of December, to be conducted by his father. “I thought it would be nice to lose some weight before the workshop. So I started dieting in October, but eventually gave up thinking that nothing is happening. But later at the workshop, after two months Uday and Hrithik noticed I have lost weight. I guess those few days of dieting worked for me. So from that day onwards I started walking on the beach, dieting, doing 600 crunches and dancing for more than an hour. I lost 54 kilos in five months.”
But all this hard work was not aiming to become an actor. “I did not lose weight deliberately to be an actor. I lived so many years of my life knowing that someday I will be thin and my stomach will be flat. Even when I weighed 140 kilos I knew that one day I am going to be thin, but I did not know how!”
‘I worked as an assistant director to learn acting’
At the age of 14, Sikandar became an assistant director under the guidance of Yash Chopra. At that time, all he did on the sets of Dil To Pagal Hai was give the clap. Four years later he began work on Devdas, again as a clapper boy but eventually got lucky with promotions.
“While I was assisting Sanjay on Devdas my interaction with Shahrukh and Aishwarya was very different, because I have known them for a very long time. I was always allowed to stand close to them when they were getting instructions. If I asked them questions, they were always kind enough to answer me.”
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