Rohit Saraf has been portrayed as the boy next door with roles in Mismatched and Ishq Vishk Rebound.

The actor recently showed off his toned and toned body in the first glimpse of his next show, The Revolutionaries. "It was long overdue," he says of this change.

Rohit Saraf adds, “My journey with fitness has always been challenging. Growing up, I used to be a dancer, so my fitness came from that. I was never somebody who believed in wanting to go to the gym to stay fit. But when I grew up and started seeing the parts I was doing, it felt like a requirement.”

He was then introduced to Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, and the 28-year-old was prodded towards this fitness path by director Shashank Khaitan.

“It wasn't a condition for the role, but he wanted to show me in a different way,” he shares, adding that as he got on the journey, he started enjoying it. “Weirdly, there was a sense of discipline that had trickled down in other areas of my life as well. What I was eating, my schedules, my sleep cycle, everything started falling in place because of having a regular workout routine,” he says.

During this journey, even The Revolutionaries came his way. “I knew that I would have to perform scenes where I would have to be shirtless as my character. I had to be well-defined and have a certain physique that (director) Nikkhil Advani had in mind. And now, I could not imagine a day in my life where I don't workout or where I'm not conscious of what I am eating,” he says.

Before revealing the transformation to his fans, Rohit teased it on social media for roughly six months.

“I was also kind of coming to terms with the fact that this is how I look now and getting comfortable with that. I was a little shy to post pictures shirtless earlier because I'd never done it. Also, I believed that it would be nicer for the audience to see me shirtless for the first time if it's for a project and not just randomly on Instagram. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I feel when it's done for a reason, it's nicer,” he admits.

But he doesn’t call it “as much a transformation as it is an evolution”. “It's not like I changed who I am, it's just another extension of me. The kind of reception I have got has been nothing but supportive. There was some shock value because people had never seen me like that. I am happy with what this entire journey has done for me, not just physically but even emotionally and mentally. I feel a lot more confident now, which is very exciting,” he says.