MUMBAI: Fardeen Khan, who is known for films like Dulha Mil Gaya, Jai Veeru and No Entry, is back to the entertainment industry. Also, he has lost 18 kgs in the last six months.

In an interview with a leading portal, the actor shared what prompted him to return to the industry. He also spoke about his fitness journey.

Fardeen told ETimes, “Actually, I have been here before as I shuttle between Mumbai and London, but yes I spent my major time in London since 2010-2011. It's just that my pictures came out during this visit, which incidentally heralds my plans of coming back to the industry. It's my daughter's birthday on Friday, December 11. So I am going back to the UK for a few days and will return in the first week of January. And haan, I have been in Mumbai since a month.”

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Further, revealing what prompted him to return to the industry, he shared with the portal, “I was a part of the industry since 1998 and my father (Feroz Khan) was a part of the industry for several years. We have seen great times. I love storytelling. I took a conscious break post 2010 but it's just that I hadn't thought that it would become so long. We moved to London, purely because we were facing challenges in having kids. I wanted to be the major support to my wife in that phase. Also when I saw my bundles of joy, I wanted to take my own sweet time and spend time with them. My daughter is now 7, my son is 3. It's not that the content was bad then and it's good now. I don't see my return in that manner. I don't go about anything in life that way. Yes, the cinema is progressive now. The current content by and large and the new format is of course a great time for the industry. But whether cinema would have become progressive or not, I would have pitched myself back and my efforts would have been to work again. Let's say my coming back has happened when it should have happened and was meant to happen. If you look back, we saw the change in Indian cinema coming since quite a few years didn't we?”

The actor has lost 18 kgs in the last six months. Speaking about how he lost weight, he said that he started eating right and healthy, coupled it with correct workouts. “In the work that we do in our industry, you are expected to look your best and you indeed want to look your best,” he said.

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CREDITS: ETIMES