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Tanishaa Mukerji reveals Aditya Chopra asked her to lose ‘love handles’ for Neal ‘n’ Nikki: ‘Led to hormonal imbalance’

Tanishaa Mukerji reveals Aditya Chopra asked her to lose ‘love handles’ for Neal ‘n’ Nikki: ‘Led to hormonal imbalance’

Actor Tanishaa Mukerji recently opened up about the intense physical transformation she underwent for Neal ‘n’ Nikki, revealing that filmmaker Aditya Chopra had pointed out her “love handles” and asked her to tone her body for the role. The actor shared that she then followed a strict fitness and diet routine to achieve the desired look, but the demanding regimen eventually resulted in a hormonal imbalance. Neal ‘n’ Nikki also featured Uday Chopra. Tanishaa gets candid Recently, Tanishaa looked back at working on Neal ‘n’ Nikki during a conversation with Mamaraazzi. She revealed that Aditya Chopra had asked her to undergo a major body transformation for the role, and the intense diet and workout routine eventually led to a hormonal imbalance. During the conversation, Tanishaa mentioned that Aditya Chopra had called her in for a screen test for the film. She confessed that he had earlier given her career advice, which she did not follow at the time, but during this project, she promised to follow his guidance “blindly.” Tanishaa shared that during the film’s …

‘Aditya Chopra asked me to tone my body, faced hormonal imbalance’: Tanishaa Mukerji | Bollywood News

‘Aditya Chopra asked me to tone my body, faced hormonal imbalance’: Tanishaa Mukerji | Bollywood News

4 min readNew DelhiMay 8, 2026 09:07 PM IST Tanishaa Mukerji, who is the daughter of veteran actor Tanuja and the sister of film star Kajol, tried to make her mark in the movies in the 2000s but did not get the kind of success that other members of her family had previously gotten. The biggest moment of Tanishaa’s career happened when she landed a YRF film, produced by Aditya Chopra, titled Neal ‘n’ Nikki. She starred alongside Aditya’s brother Uday Chopra in that film. In a new interview, Tanishaa recalled that she was asked to transform her body for the role by Aditya Chopra, and once she achieved that, she eventually had a hormonal imbalance due to the strict diet and exercise. ‘Aditya Chopra said you can’t look like this’ Tanishaa, in a chat with Mamaraazzi, said that she was called in for a screen test for the film by Aditya, even though she had appeared in a few films by then. She shared that he had previously shared some career advice for her …