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Varun Dhawan’s pull-up video inside a Mumbai Metro coach lands him in trouble, authorities issue safety warning: ‘Video should have come with disclaimer…’ | Bollywood News

Varun Dhawan’s pull-up video inside a Mumbai Metro coach lands him in trouble, authorities issue safety warning: ‘Video should have come with disclaimer…’ | Bollywood News

Varun Dhawan, who is currently basking in the success of his latest release Border 2, has once again made headlines. The actor landed in trouble after videos of him performing pull-ups inside a Mumbai Metro coach surfaced online. The incident occurred on Saturday, when Varun opted to travel by metro for a surprise visit to a theatre to avoid Mumbai’s heavy traffic. However, on Monday, metro authorities issued a safety advisory and reportedly asked the actor to include a disclaimer in such situations. Earlier, Varun had shared a clip of himself inside the metro, asking fans to guess which cinema hall he was heading to. Soon after, videos began circulating on social media showing him hanging from a metal rod and performing pull-ups, while several other passengers stood nearby. ALSO READ | Karan Johar defends Varun Dhawan after he gets trolled for his smile in Border 2, calls out content creators: ‘Noisemakers and clickbait-seeking’ Mumbai Metro Operation Corporation Limited (MMMOCL) later shared the video on its Instagram handle, along with a safety message in the …

Tridev Pandey: ‘At the onset, he couldn’t do one pull-up’

We find ourselves repeating what we hear in a bid to ascertain that we weren’t mistaken while digging up details about Kartik Aaryan’s fitness parameters. His trainer repeats himself. “That’s right. It was 39,” says Tridev Pandey of Aaryan’s fat percentage. In a bid to comprehend the commendable physical transformation that Aaryan brought about, those unfamiliar with the science of fitness would benefit from knowing that typically, this value would be classified as obese. “When we started training, he had only concluded filming Freddy, and was 90 kilos. We did our fitness analysis on day one, and he couldn’t perform a single full-range push-up. He couldn’t execute a pull-up either,” says Pandey, a national-level boxer who had been roped in to help Aryan learn the art of boxing for Chandu Champion, the actor’s next based on India’s first Paralympic gold medalist, Murlikant Petkar.  Pandey was told that his task for Kabir Khan’s film was two-fold. “I was told that this would be the first time that he would flaunt his body on the big screen, so …