His waist size is down from 82 to 34 inches, he has lost 145 kg, he has recorded with Michael and Janet Jackson and he’s now turning actor. Adnan Sami reveals it’s all because wife Sabah left him, after telling him he loved food more than her.
“My wife married me when I was already overweight. She tried to keep me in check but I was out of control.
Finally, she said, ‘Adnan, I love you very much but you love food more than me. I cannot sit back and let you destroy yourself.
It’s a crime and I don’t want to be accused by God of being an accomplice’.” That’s when Adnan Sami finally cut back on food.
He lost 100 kg and then plucked up the nerve to call Sabah. “She didn’t believe me,” he recalls.
“So I mailed her a picture and then, caught a flight to Dubai. She had tears in her eyes when she saw me.
I’ll never let her go again.” Now Sabah’s set up a production house and is making a film with Adnan as hero.
“We’ve got four scripts but have to decide which one to start with,” he says. But isn’t Sabah insecure about him turning actor - there’s been talk that he’s seeing Ameesha Patel.
He refutes the rumours. “I’m a friendly guy, both verbally and physically.
My gestures are misinterpreted.” Adnan, who made a public appearance at the music release of Tahaan after a long time, says he did so to end speculation.
“My absence from the 1920 music launch sparked speculations that I’d had a heart attack. This time if I didn’t turn up, people would say that I was giving birth to a baby.
” So there’s no heart ailment? “That would have been believable when I was obese,” he retorts. “It was a bad bout of food poisoning from eating prawns.