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FILMDOM’S BIGGEST YOGA ENTHUSIASTS
On International Yoga Day today, here’s looking at Bollywood ladies who’ve added celeb factor to yoga
Yoga, the ancient Indian science of acquiring a perfectly balanced body and mind, is part of the exercise regimen of many Bollywood celebrities. While Shilpa Shetty Kundra has been filmdom’s unofficial yoga brand ambassador for more than a decade now, it’s actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, mother to six-month-old Taimur, who made waves recently for regaining her figure by doing yoga.
Shilpa, whose son Viaan Raj Kundra is now five, is a poster girl of sorts for yoga, with her svelte and finely muscled body. She also has a yoga DVD and a dedicated YouTube channel of her yoga clips. She has been quoted as saying, “Yoga didn’t just help me with my body; I also became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better.”
Another superfit actor, 36-year-old Bipasha Basu Singh Grover, is a yoga freak. “The idea behind releasing my yoga DVD is to make people aware of yoga, and achieve a synchronised growth of mind, body and soul,” she told us earlier.
Kareena shed her pre- and post-pregnancy weight through a rigorous fitness routine, in which yoga had a big part. There’s a strong following for her workout clips on Instagram, posted by her fan clubs and best friend, actor Amrita Arora. Going by the reports, she has lost 14kg.
Actor Lara Dutta, too, became a face of yoga when she promoted pre-natal yoga and released multiple DVDs and YouTube videos on this.
Among other stars, there are Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Malaika Arora, Jacqueline Fernandes, Parineeti Chopra, Ileana D’Cruz and Alia Bhatt who are known to be yoga enthusiasts. Surprisingly, we hardly see any male actors speaking of their love for yoga.
Delhi-based yoga instructor Suneel Singh says, “[Those] who are working out in the gym are looking for a muscular body and a big frame, and you will never find yogis having a muscular body. But I’m sure some [male stars] are into it, along with other forms of exercise.”