Fitting image to the frame

Dino Morea speaks about changing standards of fitness and picks his B-town favourites

MUMBAI:

Model-turned-actor Dino Morea, who is known for maintaining a fit physique, considers Bollywood actors Tiger Shroff and Akshay Kumar the fittest actors in the industry.

“According to me, today I definitely would think among the younger lot, it’s Tiger because I have played a lot of sports with him. When he was in school we used to play a lot of basketball together and I know his level of fitness. And I think he is one of the fittest kids today,” Dino said at the launch of the new cover of Health magazine.

He added, “In the older age bracket, Akshay Kumar is very fit. He takes his training very seriously.” When asked about fitness of the two superstars Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, Dino responded “I am sure they work out, go to the gym and all. Salman right now is looking buffed as a wrestler in his film Sultan. They are fit but if you talk about extreme fitness, I’d put Tiger and Akshay first.” Shah Rukh Khan also got on the fitness bandwagon after sporting a six-pack in Om Shanti Om.

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As part of his interest in fitness, Dino has also opened free-for-all fitness stations in 15 locations in Mumbai where basic exercises can be done. He added, “There is a huge misconception in our industry that fitness is only a six-pack and fitness is being bulky. That’s not fitness, you need to be able to play a sport. Fitness is overall, your nutrition, your diet, your lifestyle, everything revolves around fitness.”

On the professional front, Dino recently stated he wishes to work with the “fantastic” Deepika Padukone, who he feels is the “fittest” female actor in the industry. “For the future, Deepika for sure. I think she’s fantastic and the fittest because she also plays sports,” stated Dino when asked about a co-star he would like to share screen with in the future. He also considers actors Shilpa Shetty, Sunny Leone and Bipasha Basu, who have come out with their own fitness DVDS, as fit.

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Earlier this year, Deepika had confessed to suffering from depression, following which she set up an organisation to address such issues in people. About Deepika’s honesty and initiative, Dino remarked “There are so many people who have different kinds of illnesses. And when you have someone of such a stature coming out and saying, ‘hey, this is what I suffered from’, it’s fantastic because it gives many more people who have similar illness the courage to come out and say, ‘if she could do it, I can do it too’.”

Dino shared that it’s all about getting someone to lead the herd and asking more people to open up and talk about their problems.

Dino was always known for his fit frame even before the six-pack and eight-pack culture dominated the industry. He had gone topless in numerous films in the early 2000s, which was not a frequent site in those days except for cases like Salman Khan. 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2015.

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