Ranbir Kapoor was ‘naughty’, didn’t want to give up mutton; ‘disciplined’ Shahid Kapoor ate same meal for months, says nutritionist

Bollywood actors are extremely disciplined with their diet and spend hours in the gym to attain a physique that makes their fans go gaga when they appear on the big screen. In a recent interaction, celebrity nutritionist Pooja Makhija gave an insight into celebrity diets. She also shared anecdotes of working with a “naughty” Ranbir Kapoor, who wouldn’t quit his favourite — mutton — and the extremely disciplined Shahid Kapoor, who would eat the same thing every day.

In a podcast with Raj Shamani, Pooja was asked to name the celebrity who would revolt while following a diet. She took Ranbir’s name and said, “Ranbir, when he started the diet, he was naughty. He used to tell me that ‘Pooja tu mera mutton band karva rahi hai main nahi sune wala hoon (You are stopping my mutton, and I won’t listen to you). He also hated my vegetable juice and told me that he won’t drink it. But then a couple of years later, I met Neetu Kapoor and she told me that Ranbir does not go a day without his vegetable juice. I don’t know what he is doing today.”

Pooja shared that among the actors and actresses she had worked with, Shahid Kapoor is the most disciplined. “Shahid is the most disciplined one. He can have the same food… And he has things in a very simple format. He’s not a very fancy guy if he will have ragi steam balls, he will have it every day for lunch for days and months and weeks, and he doesn’t get bored. So, he is very diligent, and even Deepika Padukone is very diligent.”

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In an old interview with Tweak India, Shahid’s wife Mira Rajput had spoken about the actor’s habit of eating the same breakfast every day. She had said, “Typical breakfast is uttapam because that’s what Shahid likes to eat Monday to Sunday, whether we are in India or in Antarctica we will be having uttapam, sambar and chutney everyday.”

On the work front, while Ranbir Kapoor will next be seen in Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana, Shahid Kapoor will star in Cocktail 2.