Jr NTR lost 15 kilos for Dragon, started to look frail and pale, says Prashanth Neel: ‘His wife was upset with me’
The teaser for Dragon has been out for barely a day, but social media is already losing its mind over it. Dropped on May 20 to celebrate Jr NTR’s 43rd birthday, the first glimpse introduces him as a razor-sharp, lethal assassin named Luger. While fans were busy obsessing over his shockingly lean new look, director Prashanth Neel dropped a behind-the-scenes bombshell that the actor actually lost nearly 15 kilograms in a brief four-month window to pull this off. Jr NTR lost 15 kilos for Dragon, started to look frail and pale, says Prashanth Neel: ‘His wife was upset with me’. On Jr NTR’s shocking transformation The idea for the transformation wasn’t even part of the original plan. It came up about a year and a half ago during routine pre-production look tests. While trying out different styles, Neel realized that a standard action-hero build wouldn’t do justice to the character. Recalling his conversation with the star, the filmmaker said, “I told him that if you became thinner for the role of the assassin, it would …




