I put on weight to become Bob Biswas: Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan weighed around 100 to 105 kg while shooting for Bob Biswas. In an exclusive chat with Indiatoday.in, the actor said that he didn’t want to cheat his audience by wearing prosthetics.

Abhishek Bachchan’s next has him play Bob Biswas, a character from Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani, who is getting a spin-off film. For Bob Biswas, Abhishek had to go through the tough ordeal of putting on weight to look the part. Unlike many actors, Abhishek didn’t want to use CGI or prosthetics to look the part and instead went all out to put on oodles of weight to look and feel like Bob. In an exclusive conversation with India Today, Abhishek spoke about the mental process of becoming Bob Biswas and why he was adamant about putting on weight to look the part.

Excerpts from the conversation: