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When you first meet Salman, it has to be something hatke: Anushka Sharma

India Blooms News Service | | Jun 23, 2016, at 06:24 pm

Mumbai, June 23 (IBNS) Ahead of the release of Sultan where she is paired opposite Salman Khan with both playing wrestlers, Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma says meeting the megastar was something not too casual.

"While I had met Salman socially a couple of times, I didn’t know him at all. I met him for the first time when we did a photoshoot to announce the film," she says in an interview to DNA.

"He waas working out at the YRF gym when I walked in and he was lying down on the ground and looking up. When you see Salman for the first time it has to be something hatke. It can’t be a standard thing of him standing and us saying hi/hello," recalls Anushka.

Asked how much she did she push herself for Sultan, she says: "If you have to play a wrestler on screen, you obviously know it’s going to be hard, but this was especially hard because I had very little time to do what I had to do. I had less than six weeks to prep before they began shooting my first bout as Arfa.

"There was a time crunch and I had a lot to do. I was also working with a disadvantage of the same perception that people have in their minds about what wrestlers look like."

"That most wrestlers are big and bulky. Then, I started researching and realised that there are different categories of wrestlers. Not everyone is in the same height or weight class. People fight in different weight classes. I researched some international and really tall and lean female wrestlers. The idea was to find someone with my body type. I found them quite toned and decided that was the way to go."

"I started working towards that. I was already working with a physio and trainer because I had a nagging back problem after NH10, so I had to be guided properly. My training for Sultan was hectic. At one point, I was doing 50-kg deadlift and 40-kg front squats, which is supposed to be great."

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