Puneet Issar gained 18 kilo of muscle for Mahabharat: ‘My body weight was no more than 80-82 kg’

How Puneet Issar transformed his physique for the iconic role of Duryodhana in BR Chopra’s MahabharatPuneet Issar recalls gaining 18 kgs of ‘muscle’ for the 1988 Hindi TV series Mahabharat, in which he played the iconic role of Duryodhana. “Those days, I was an eighth-degree black belt martial artist.