Mumbai,April 20 :SHABANA Azmi had a good time eating while preparing for her character for Gurinder Chadha’s It’s A Wonderful Afterlife where she plays a plump middle- aged woman.But now, the actress seems to be regretting the eating exercise, albeit all for a professional cause.
After putting on a few kilograms for her role, she has become a complete veggie and now she is strictly sticking to a salad diet to get back to her original shape.The actress had to put on a lot of weight for her character in the film as the story revolves around a mother who is struggling to get her daughter married because the latter is overweight.Shabana happily ate everything and as a result, she piled on a few kilograms, a source from the film unit said.
Gurinder made both Shabana and Goldy Notay, who plays Shabana’s daughter in the film, eat a lot on the sets. But nobody was complaining. Apart from the delicious food, there used to be lots of chocolates for both of them to binge on.
“ I ate so much that I managed to put on about 25 pounds. I and Goldy had this competition on who gains more weight in less time. Now, I have to make up for all that. Goldy had to become three times larger for the film but now she has lost all the weight and is looking fabulous.Though I have managed to lose a lot of the weight I had put on, I am still struggling with my food to lose more weight,” Shabana said.