I looked at food for comfort: Arjun Kapoor

Actor Arjun Kapoor tried his hand at cooking recently for the first time when he featured on the cooking show, ‘Star vs Food’, for discovery+. The actor made Laal Maas and Chapli Kabab under the mentorship of Gulaam Gouse Deewani, Head Chef at The Butler & The Bayleaf.

Arjun Kapoor also spoke about his physical transformation of becoming fit from P.H.A.T. (Pretty, hot and tempting) over the years. He recollected how his indulgence in food was uncontrollable as he weighed 150 kg by the time he was 16. Talking about his parents’ separation, he said, “I looked at food for comfort. I got caught up in the way I felt emotionally… so I started eating and then I really enjoyed eating, and fast food culture came into India at that point of time and fast food is ‘fast food’, so you can go after school and keep eating. It is very difficult to let go because eventually, there is nobody to stop you beyond a point. Your mother loves you; she will reprimand you, but you are still a kid, and they give you benefit of the doubt ki yeh umar hai khaane ki, theek hai.”

With time, he developed asthma and other injuries because of obesity. Talking about the transformation phase, he said, “It was Diwali, and I just ate biryani and had a tub of ice cream, and then I said, ‘Bas! Is zindagi ke liye bohot kha liya, ab apni agli zindagi ke liye nahi kahunga!’ And that’s where the new phase of my life started, where I learnt how to let go.”