Pooja Kumar: It was challenging to gain weight for my new role

People do different things to really get under the skin of their character. Indian-American actress Pooja Kumar who has acted in

Hollywood

films as well as

multilingual

projects back in India, did so, too. She is gearing up for her next, an amalgamation of four

short stories

. We hear Pooja plays a middle-aged

married

woman, who is primarily working in the house, but decides to take charge of her life in a different way. For this, she had to gain a lot of weight to play her part of a woman from a middle-class family.

Speaking about her ‘transformation’, the

actress

says, “The moment I was narrated the story I was convinced of it. I knew that this was going to be

challenging

as well. I am into fitness all my life and now here I was having to gain some serious weight and becoming predominantly fat. It was challenging, but it was something I loved doing. I could eat anything and everything. The only thing I was worried about was my director telling me that he is disappointed with effort. But he loved the effort and the results, so that's a huge validation for me. I guess and now the major one has to come from the audience.”