Tusshar Kapoor’s getting into character

If you see actor Tusshar Kapoor looking a tad bit different in the next few days, don’t be taken aback. The actor is all set to grow a beard and incorporate a few other lifestyle changes to get into the skin of the character for an upcoming film, in which he plays a jail mate. Tusshar reveals that he has even been going to places like Dongri to imbibe the mannerisms and lingo of the locals there.

Tusshar is clearly going out of his way to do all this but the actor insists that he is only being professional. “My job in every film is to work on the personality of the character I play. Since I’m playing a jail mate in Shootout at Wadala now, I wanted to bring in the lean look. I’m following a very strict diet to get the desired look so I’m not being able to eat what I want to,” reveals the actor. That is not all, Tusshar adds, “I’ve not even cut my hair, I wanted to grow it to get the 1970’s look. I don’t style my hair or blow dry it — I’ve kept it completely natural.” Tusshar also reveals that actor John Abraham, who he is sharing screen space with in the film, is actually a school-time acquaintance. “But we were not close friends as such,” he is quick to add. “John was my senior in school. We had a lot of common teachers and friends though. We would be divided into different houses in school days — I was in the yellow house and John used to captain it. So ours was more of a team mate-captain relationship,” says Tusshar. Ask him if John and he discuss their school days and Tusshar says that they do talk about common friends. “We keep talking about how school used to be in our days and how it is now. A lot of our common actor friends are also from Bombay Scottish (where John and he studied). We chat about them also sometimes. And me being a workaholic and getting into shape, we discuss diets and workout regimes too these days,” says Tusshar.