Bengaluru : Ravichandran has accepted his first mythological role of playing Krishna in Darshan’s 50th film “Kurukshetra” directed by Naganna. Ravichandran, who had left eating non-vegetarian food around Shivarathri way before “Kurukshetra” project came to him has now given up on caffeine to lose weight. He is doing all that he can to fit into Krishna’s role and will be joining the sets in Hyderabad from August 28.
He was prepared to get rid of his moustache but he was sad to know that he will have to lose chest hair as well! But as it is all for the character, he agreed. He wants to slim down naturally now and in this bid has already lost around 8 kg.
Ravichandran feels that Krishna is the one, who drives the story and the team felt that he would do well in this role. from among the present lot of senior actors. Meanwhile, the film has already gone on floors. It is scheduled to release in January next year.