India, May 21 -- The teaser for Dragon has been out for barely a day, but social media is already losing its mind over it. Dropped on May 20 to celebrate Jr NTR's 43rd birthday, the first glimpse introduces him as a razor-sharp, lethal assassin named Luger. While fans were busy obsessing over his shockingly lean new look, director Prashanth Neel dropped a behind-the-scenes bombshell that the actor actually lost nearly 15 kilograms in a brief four-month window to pull this off.

The idea for the transformation wasn't even part of the original plan. It came up about a year and a half ago during routine pre-production look tests. While trying out different styles, Neel realized that a standard action-hero build wouldn't do justice to the cha...