HIGH LIFE- Kya fit hai
Matter forgotten. Until the next morning. I saw the Singh who is about to be King crooning on my screen. I thought Akshay Kumar is as fit. Once again, I attributed his looks to his disciplined life. No smoking, no drinking and the daredevil AK has been dedicated to fitness for a decade and a half if not more.
These are stars that won’t need botox, fillers, hair transplants and other such beauty aids for a long time. And yet, there are stars who live the bad boy life and still manage to look fit. They smoke and drink heavily, often brandishing alcohol bottles in public and still looking fit as the proverbial fiddles. Sending out the message that drink and party all you want, you can still look fit and pumped up.
Well, it is all thanks to the steroids. Bad role models I would say. By the time their fans realise what repercussions this crazy lifestyle can have, it might be too late. Their looks, health and for that matter even their personal relationships will all crumble. Thanks to the tricks that steroids play with their mind and head. These stars have rocky personal lives. Constantly changing partners, getting violent with them, marrying several times and often getting caught up with crime.
All stars look good now. But only one category will continue to look and feel great even three decades from now. The others might cut a sorry figure. Let any international trainer come in from any country and claim to make you a muscle-pumping hulk in three months. I do not dispute that they might achieve the results. But hey, these stars have the same heart and lungs as ours. So all the smoking and paan masalas they are addicted to aren’t really making it easy. Except of course, the steroids.
So looking fit and really being fit are two different issues. Which one is your choice? I think the answer is obvious. Here is to Akshay and Suniel and few others like them. May their tribe just grow?
(Simi Chandoke, Editor-in-Chief, Lifestyle and Society, Zoom)