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Actor Tanushree Dutta is gearing up to make a comeback to Bollywood. And, to do so, the 36-year-old actor had to lose 15 kg over the last year. Recently, she took to Instagram shared the news of her comeback along with her picture. In her caption, she also addressed the rumours about receiving an "IT job opportunity" in LA. She called it a "very prestigious job opportunity", and claimed that she always had the "discipline, integrity and determination of an army person so to work in this field in whatever capacity would have been an honour."
The actor revealed that she lost body weight through exercise, yoga, strict diet and intermittent fasting. She currently lives in the US. In the Instagram post, she said she has been offered work in Bollywood and is achieving her weight loss goal to look good on camera.
She was body-shamed
Talking to Times Now, she revealed that she is “in touch with three big south film managers who are pitching me for big-budget south projects as well as 12 casting offices in Mumbai.”
Dutta, whose allegations set the events in motion for the #MeToo movement in Bollywood, was last seen in the 2010 film Apartment. After that she was away from the industry. "I was healthy and fit in terms of my body and shape, I was okay. I was not obese. For screen, I thought if I dropped a few pounds, I would look even better. So I started working on that,” she explained about her strict fitness regime.
She also claimed that she has been on a low-carb to no-carb diet and some weight training, two hours of brisk walking, a healthy diet of fruits and salads. She also said she would be hurt when people would give her "underhanded compliments".
Dutta wrote on Instagram, “There is no magic, no miracle, no secret so to say just a realization that I wanted the change so bad that I was willing to give up on a few things that were not serving me anymore. Certain attitudes, certain food habits and certain thought and habit patterns had lived out their expiry."
Further explaining how she was body-shamed, she told Times Now, “I think, in the last couple of years, when I was maintaining a bigger body frame, I think a lot of people took that as an excuse to body-shame me. Sometimes people can be really sneaky, you rarely come across people who outright call you fat. They said in sneaky ways and that hurts you nevertheless. They will say something that is completely unnecessary. Don’t I know it? People would be like ‘oh you have put on a bit of weight, you are bigger than before.’ Basically underhanded comments. I got a lot of underhanded comments and underhanded compliments, which you can tell the intention of the person the way they are talking to you. You can tell that they don’t have their best interests in me. They say it to put you down and make you feel bad. I did go through that emotional roller coaster."
During the #MeToo movement Dutta had called out against Nana Patekar, producer Samee Siddiqui, choreographer Ganesh Acharya and director Rakesh Sarang.
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