IMAGE: Kartik Aaryan with Sreeleela. {Photograph}: Form courtesy Kartik Aaryan/Instagram

Kartik Aaryan is reportedly doing his most intense function up to now.

Particulars of Anurag Basu’s subsequent love story Aashiqui 3, co-starring Sreeleela, of two folks passionately in love and but unable to remain collectively, are but to be outed, however a supply near the venture tells Subhash Okay Jha that Kartik has by no means labored so exhausting for any character but.

“He’s following Dilip Kumar’s Devdas mannequin. The legendary actor turned so concerned with the character that he slept and breathed like Devdas. Kartik has lower himself off from all private interactions to stay in character for Anurag Basu’s movie.

“Anurag needed Kartik to develop a beard, shed pounds drastically and attempt to stay in a darkish place,” the supply says, including that the one different movie Kartik had labored so exhausting for was Chandu Champion.

The movie, it is stated, has already begun to take a toll on Kartik.

Sources reveal that the actor shouldn’t be getting a lot sleep today.

“He hardly sleeps, he hardly talks. All his focus is on remaining in character for the movie,” a good friend of Kartik informs.

Whereas the onscreen romance could include its issues, the ‘offscreen romance’ between Kartik and Sreeleela appears to have tickled Anurag Basu. Click here to read his reaction.

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