Behind Bollywood’s hottest bods

He is the man behind innumerable well-chiselled bodies in Bollywood. He has made actors shed kilos within months and helped them slip into perfect shape. Hrithik Roshan, Zayed Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji and Esha Deol et al are his regular clients to name a few. Meet Satyajit Chaurasia of Barbarian chain of gyms.

Essentially hailing from Nagpur, Chaurasia was always interested in bodybuilding but it was much later that he decided to take it up as a profession. After opening a gym in his hometown, he set his sights on Mumbai.

"It was a big struggle initially, but once we set up our first gym, the rest came easily," says Chaurasia. Today, Chaurasia has become a brand unto himself, with more than 80 percent of Bollywood stars having enrolled themselves at his various gyms in suburban Mumbai; a fact he is evidently proud of.

But congratulate him for changing the way our stars look and he turns graciously modest: "Most of the actors are nice and hardworking. In fact, many are really close to me - like Esha’s (Deol) my rakhi sister and Zayed (Khan) is like a brother too. It is because they have worked hard on their bodies that they have got such fabulous results."
 
Ask him to name a couple of best bodies in the business, and he takes no time in rattling off, "Rani (Mukerji), Hrithik (Roshan) and Zayed are in great shape, and so is Esha."

And that’s no ‘body body baatein’, trust us!