Vijay Deverakonda remembers his ‘unhealthy’ physique transformation for ‘Liger’

Vijay Deverakonda’s 2022 movie ‘Liger’ was hyped as his massive pan-Indian movie, however earlier than one may blink, the movie flopped on the field workplace. That doesn’t imply that Vijay didn’t put his coronary heart and soul into the movie. In a current interview, he opened up in regards to the huge toll that his physique underwent in the course of the preparation of the movie, as at one level, he was simply taking 200 ml of water. Throughout the shoot, even that wasn’t allowed, so he was simply licking an ice dice. Vijay admitted that this wasn’t wholesome and after he was accomplished with the shoot, he was simply craving some chilled coconut water.

He shared that he began with 4 to 6 litres of water a day. The consumption was steadily decreased and by the top, he was simply taking 200 ml of water a day. “Within the final 10 hours earlier than the shoot, you’re not consuming water. You’re simply licking an ice dice,” Vijay stated in a dialog with Sudhir Srinivasan. “It’s by no means wholesome.”

The deprivation consumed him totally. “Each second, from the time I used to be consuming 300 ml of water a day, each minute you’re similar to: water, water, water. That’s all you want. That’s all you need at that second,” he stated. “Once I was licking that ice dice and wasn’t allowed water, I used to be sleeping considering of water. I used to be like, ‘I can’t operate like this’.” He knew he needed to endure 4 extra hours of capturing earlier than he may lastly drink. His directions to his workforce had been determined and exact. “I instructed them I would like coconut water and get 4 litres of it. I didn’t need meals; I simply needed chilled coconut water,” he stated.

Vijay recalled this incident as he was selling his upcoming movie ‘Ranabaali’, which is about in the course of the Madras Famine of 1876-78. Vijay stated the photographs from that interval are among the many most annoying issues he has ever seen. “They used to name it the Madras Famine as a result of in every single place you went, folks’s ribs and chests had been coming out as a result of their stomachs had simply shrunk from hunger,” he stated. “There are photographs from these occasions which, once you see them, are so disturbing. You’ll be able to’t even consider it.”