Kartik Aaryan's physical transformation shines through in 'Tu Hai Champion' from 'Chandu Champion'

Kartik Aaryan's song 'Tu Hai Champion' from the film 'Chandu Champion' dropped on Thursday.

The song ‘Tu Hai Champion’ from the upcoming Kartik Aryan-starrer sports drama film ‘Chandu Champion’ was unveiled on Thursday. The song on YouTube had almost 1 lakh views in three hours of it being released.

‘Chandu Champion’, directed by Bajrangi Bhaijaan director Kabir Khan, is a biopic of Paralympic gold medallist Murlikant Petkar, and the film will show Kartik Aryan in the role of a boxer, wrestler, and soldier.

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The song ‘Tu Hai Champion’ from the upcoming Kartik Aryan-starrer sports drama film ‘Chandu Champion’ was unveiled on Thursday. ‘Chandu Champion’, directed by Bajrangi Bhaijaan director Kabir Khan, is a biopic of Paralympic gold medallist Murlikant Petkar, and the film will show Kartik in the role of a boxer, wrestler, and soldier.

Murlikant Petkar, born in 1944 in Sangli, Maharashtra, won an individual gold medal in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, in Heidelberg, Germany. While serving in the Indian Army, Murlikant was a tradesman known as a jawan in the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME).

Composed by Pritam, the song ‘Tu Hai Champion’, which also features Vijay Raaz as encouraging a weepy Kartik Aryan, following Kartik Aryan’s character promising that he’ll become a “champion”. The song further shows the physical transformation that Kartik Aryan’s character undergoes vis-à-vis the strenuous training as part of the Indian Army.

Arijit Singh lends his voice to the song, along with Amit Mishra with additional vocals by Dev Arijit. The winning singer-composer duo Arijit Singh and Pritam have given many memorable chartbusters like ‘Dilliwali Girlfriend’, ‘Phir Le Aaya Dil’, ‘Channa Mereya’, ‘Gerua’, ‘Kesariya’, ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’, ‘Raabta’, ‘Tum Kya Mile’, among many others.

The actor’s toned muscles are telling of the fact that Kartik Aryan underwent massive transformation for the song. Kartik Aryan underwent rigorous training for his part in the film, from giving up sugar for over a year to following a strict fitness regimen to lose 20 kg.

At the trailer launch of the film in Gwalior, director Kabir Khan praised the actor for his single-minded dedication to undergo an intense training to get into the skin and shape of the character.

‘Chandu Champion’, which will release in theatres on June 14, has been is jointly produced by Kabir Khan and Sajid Nadiadwala, who will be producing Salman Khan’s next film ‘Sikandar’, which will release on Eid 2025.