Age is not a barrier; you can build a good physique anytime if you wish to: Ronit Roy

After Udaan, Student of the Year and Shootout at Wadala, TV superstar Ronit Roy is all set to make a mark again when we will see him playing the main negative character in the Akshay Kumar-starrer Boss. But this film was quite tough for Ronit as he needed to toughen up for his portions that included a lot of action and bare bodied sequences. “Till Boss happened, I had never really thought of seriously working out as I never needed it. But now I only had 12 weeks to get into shape. The first three weeks passed away with no result for I was doing my own thing since I was not getting a good trainer. Then I contacted a guy who had made the bodies of ‘A’ list Bollywood stars, but he was a bigger star than them. I therefore decided to excuse myself as I am just a small character artiste,” he claimed. “With just nine weeks left, I had a frank discussion with the director. Earlier, he had shown me pictures of what he wanted. Since it was not possible to achieve the desired results in this a short period, I even contemplated going down the steroids route. But my doctors showed me the red signal saying that my body wouldn’t be able to take it,” he added. “So we chose the middle path when I surrendered myself to the director’s vision and pushed myself to the limit. In the mornings, I would run for an hour and after a 10-hour shoot, I would work out for a hour and a half,” he revealed. “I also switched from a low carb, high protein diet, to no carbs at all. This combined with the stress of working out, saw me passing out a couple of times,” Ronit observed. “The best part of action in Boss is that it is real. Normally in films we don’t really hit each other, we just punch in the air, but here I was really punching and kicking Akshay in his face and stomach while he was defending himself. Akki being a hardcore Punjabi was cool but when the Bengali that I am, was hitting him, my hands would start swelling up,” he informed. Quite impressive….Ronit… “We shot these portions in the extreme heat of Thailand. The heat became worse for we were shooting in a cement factory which made the uncomfortable level even higher,” pointed out the actor. “Post the film I am still working out, but not that strictly. I sometimes skip a session or work out on one body part,” he added. Finally, Ronit says that he does not regard age as a barrier. “If you want to build a body you can do it anytime,” he said.