Ranveer Singh will also have to let go of his six pack abs to look like an 18th century Maratha warrior.
"As Bajirao, Ranveer will have to go bare-chested in many scenes, and it will be a full physical deconstruction for Ranveer," says a source close to the project. "The character is set in the 18th century, when there were no gym-built bodies. Sanjay Leela Bhansali can’t have a Maratha king with six packs."
One would recall that Hrithik Roshan and Farhan Akhtar played Emperor Akbar and athlete Milkha Singh with their gym-trained six-pack bodies, a cinematic liberty that did not go unnoticed by critics.
Bhansali won’t take any risks with facts and history.
“He isn’t asking Ranveer to go flabby," the source says. "Bajirao was a king and a warrior. He has to look physically fit but not in a physically trained manner. He would have to lose his hair and his 6-pack look."