It is known news that Mega hero Varun Tej will play the role of a boxer in his next upcoming sport based drama. Varun Tej headed to Los Angeles and trained under Olympic boxing gold medallist Tony Jeffries. He even attended the boxing boot camp in Mumbai to train under Neeraj Goyat, the first Indian boxer to have made it to WBC world rankings. In his Mumbai schedule, He received training on various nuances of boxing, apart from a few physical exercises. It was all before the lockdown disturbed the world, and now it is heard that Varun Tej gained weight in the wait for reopening.
Though Varun Tej practiced his boxing skills at home during the lockdown but he gained the weight that needs attention now. Now the reports are coming that Varun Tej is focusing his efforts to lose those extra kilos before resuming the shoot of his movie Boxer, which is helmed by Kiran Korrapati and is jointly produced by Varun’ cousin Allu Bobby and Siddhu.
Kiran Korrapati earlier worked as an assistant director for few movies like ‘Shankar Dada MBBS’, ‘Touch Chesi Chudu’, ‘Tholi Prema’, ‘Mirapakai’, ‘Veera’ and ‘Antariksham 9000 KMPH’.
Varun Tej is likely to do two back to back multi-starrers. The first one is Anil Ravipudi’ directorial venture F3, which is expected to go on the floor next year.