Exclusive: Rajkummar Rao beefs up to play a cop in Badhaai Do! See pic

Rajkummar Rao is known to surprise his audience with every film that he picks. The actor takes great effort in getting into the skin of the characters he plays, even if that involves a physical transformation. His upcoming film,

Badhaai Do

, is special to him, and he recently gave a glimpse of his prep for the project on social media.

He will be seen playing a tough cop at a Mahila Police Thana, in the Junglee Pictures’ highly anticipated film, also starring Bhumi Pednekar, and for that he has been training rigorously for the past couple of months and following a strict diet to achieve the desired result. Besides the physical makeover, he will also surprise us with another aspect as far as his look is concerned — he will sport a moustache and a hairstyle that is completely different from what we have seen so far in his previous films.

Speaking about his transformation, the actor tells BT, “Badhaai Do is indeed a special film for me. I have been following a strict regime. Being a vegetarian, I am following a natural and organic diet that includes fruits, oats, quinoa, sattu and lots of vegetables. Even during the lockdown, when the access to the gym was restricted, I would work out at home regularly, and this entire process has been life-changing for me.”



Two years after their National Award-winning film,

Badhaai Ho

, Junglee Pictures is set to roll out Badhaai Do, that boasts of a fabulous cast. Directed by Harshavardhan Kulkarni and written by Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary, it brings together Rajkummar and Bhumi for the first time. The film is slated to go on the floors in January 2021.