Ishaan Khatter Challenges ‘The Royals’ Makers Over Unnecessary Shirtless Scenes: ‘Iss Scene Mein Kya Zarurat Hain?’

Ishaan Khatter Challenges ‘The Royals’ Makers Over Unnecessary Shirtless Scenes: Everyone was gaga over Ishaan Khatter’s dashing looks after his Hollywood debut on Netflix’s The Perfect Couple. After his much-debated The Perfect Couple debut, he went on to play the role of an ultra-hottie prince in The Royals a romantic comedy-drama where he was seen shirtless a few times and caught much flack and controversy because of blatant objectification. Speaking in a recent chat he revealed that he was speaking with the makers of The Royals about how he was portrayed.

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Speaking to Mashable India, he said, “It’s that kind of character jo shirt nahi pehenta hai. To be honest, now it will look like… but since I had committed I went for it, but I did fight with them on certain days that ‘I can wear shirt in this scene. It doesn’t require him to be shirtless.’ They had very interesting ways to put this into the script like I can out on a blanket while sleeping… but I had fun doing it.”

The Royals also contains an impressive cast of actors in Bhumi Pednekar, Zeenat Aman, Sakshi Tanwar, Nora Fatehi, Vihaan Samat, Dino Morea, and Milind Soman. The output annoyed critics, who felt the output was paper-thin and packaged with a lack of considerable ambition, and yet became one of Netflix’s most-viewed output.

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In preparing for his shirtless scenes in The Royals Ishaan, like most actors doing shirtless scenes, had to build muscle and stay in shape. But, for the next project in Neeraj Ghaywan's Homebound he had to shed all that muscle really quickly to create the look of a regular person. He shared, “The director told me that I will have to lose all the muscles for Homebound. I was like, ‘yeah’. He said you will have to look normal.” Ishaan said that he lost 8 kgs for the film.

Neeraj Ghaywan's second feature film was Homebound which just premiered at the recently put on 78th Cannes Film Festival and received a terrific nine-minute standing ovation. The movie has been produced collaboratively by Karan Johar, while the executive producer is legendary director Martin Scorsese.

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