This Indian Has the Longest Nails in the World and It’s Insane!

An Indian guy from Pune has the world’s longest fingernails on one hand, he hasn’t cut them since 1952!

He nailed it! Meet the man who hasn’t cut his nails for over six decades and holds the title for the longest fingernails in one hand ever. (Photo courtesy: Guinness Book of World Records)

78-year-old Shridhar Chillal is a regular guy from Pune, Maharashtra. Just that he stopped cutting his nails five years after Independence. As a result THIS happened:

Whaaaaattttt! These aren’t branches out of a banyan tree! They are actual, human nails! (Photo courtesy: Guinness Book of World Records)

Just this week, the Guinness Book of World Records verified that the 78-year-old has the longest fingernails on a single hand in the world. He’s been growing them for 62 YEARS and they clock in at a cumulative 358.1 inches. Woah!

One of his thumbnails alone is two metres long (Photo courtesy: Guinness Book of World Records)

Shridhar Chillal has been growing his nails since he was 16, inspired by a teacher who told him he would never appreciate how hard it was to lose a nail until he tried to grow them himself. And so Shridhar continued with this crazy, impressive feat despite the fact that it made it very difficult for him to find work or love.

The nails are not without their complications.

Shridhar has to turn every half hour or so in bed to make sure he doesn’t crush his fingernails. However, he enjoys being recognised everywhere he goes and boasts: “I never have to wait in a queue”.

OMG! And here, I can’t get my nails to stop breaking. Wonder what’s his secret! (Photo courtesy: Guinness Book of World Records)

Shridhar plans to cut them sometime in the near future and donate them to a museum, but won’t say when.