Maniesh Paul Transformation: Shedding 10 Kilos for His OTT Debut

Maniesh Paul's Transformation from chubby boy to a film figure.

Maniesh Paul Transformation: There is a fascinating fact that has been gaining headlines about the famous TV anchor, Maniesh Paul that he lost around 10 kilos of weight for an OTT Debut.

During the shooting of the OTT series ‘Rafuchakkar’ which was released on June 15, 2023, on Jio Cinema. It is said that he played the role of 5 characters in the series because of which he had to lose 10 kilos of weight in just 3 weeks to make himself fit for the roles.

The film ‘Rafuchakkar’ was directed by Ritam Srivastav and Maniesh Paul fans were shocked to see the transformation from a ‘chubby pure Punjabi boy’ to a perfectly fit figure.

However, Maniesh Paul, trainer Praveen Nair helped him to lose 10 kilos weight, Praveen earlier revealed that Maniesh's journey to lose 10 kilos of weight wasn’t easy, he had to go through hard work, intense training, and a focused diet to get that result.

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Praveen Nair in a post shared on his Instagram handle described his transformation journey.

In the caption of the post shared by Praveen on June 2023, he said, “Well this perp for #rafuchakkar was full of hard work, excitement to look into the scale and mirror everyday to see those small changes.”

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Maniesh Paul trainer added, “The biggest challenge that we faced was “he had to look fat first and within a matter of three weeks wanted to look at his best lean version” First thing as a coach I did was calculated time, goal, calories intake and calories output, sat with Paully and made him understand the whole road map when he heard it at first he knew it is not going to be easy but, he is a man of his words once he decides then he will be only stopped once he is done.”

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Praveen Nair said, “We went all the way on high calories to gain weight and then loosing those extra pound and more within three weeks (Paully lost almost 10kg and above in about three weeks) and when we saw pics coming up we are like “bro, it is worth all those extra efforts.”

The trainer explained the high-calorie diest that the Maniesh followed, “Changing your body in that short span is not easy when you have a hectic schedule. Shoot used to start at 07:30am most of days and we used to complete weight training and cardio from 06:00 to 07:00am and stayed focus on diet and workout no matter what if the day went too long like till 12:00am or if there is no diet food available, we planned everything to its perfection or by Pre planning in order to meet regular goals and today standing here so proud of those days of hard work.”

Praveen concluded by adding, “Paully’s transformation and from changing that chubby pure Punjabi boy wasn’t easy but, as the saying goes once you know the why, you know how to do it. Hats off to this awesome dude who makes everyone PROUD around him.”

However, along with being a TV host, he is also a great actor and has appeared in several films such as Maruti Mera Dost, Tees Maar Khan, and ABCD: Anybody Can Dance. He also appeared as a lead character in the film Mickey Virus (2013).

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