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tv   Bollywoods Stunt Performers  Al Jazeera  May 22, 2020 1:33am-2:01am +03

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. but accidents on film sets a comedy something even in didn't do. what i wanted east meets the indian stand for risking it all for the brought lots of balding. jahvid gallery believes the danger from acrobatics to really fix. the he was born on a bike the bollywood stuntman. the tricks of the trite from the internet has given. me money and freedom and. for tonight's game you take the stance give partner to give you do they give. up their thought that the minute i get. a. job that grew up in some hot oven pool
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a small industrial town in you will keep you. there yeah yeah maybe start to manage that and out of it all mentees guy get the sequel he's out of his subordinate like body and support the family support. like many boys did job and chose to work as a mechanic because of his passion for most of us. some bikes started scott. there they stand that we have a starting mechanic i'm going to big. or that's too much he bites at anybody. that if you got a leg neither of us. today he practiced stunts in the forest and by this river. is if you beat another into the garden if i need you to give him a start you can buy to me that if you get started i'm out of those love with any idea to be going to give me.
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time to come and. i'm looking outside and put in a make 10 men into our tiny minister and start to get a supplemental big that is ahead of me as a new public are going to. pay out a bike why does a dead weight means that many of. the white simak or that i've got to go. after appearing on a television talent show he was scouted to work on big action films across india. along the way he smashed. 7 cars and. betting reading books need to. do that to me or a man while you were only able i suppose maybe action director a foreign army with india going to eastern men were not going to go to school. to get the one many sets and they would probably. just did loves his
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job but says being a stunt double for big action stars swayze. would be action movie. started men all day on the stand men go down that is that i'm looked out of jail or how many times that i make it in the past i mean that he. had me do that they are. if you know they get him. he won the. job of a path white house of prophecy that they were done in down a is and they get me on is about as was said tegan me. to said stand eagle very well. well. you go to madonna. with around 2000 films made in india every year there's no
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shortage of opportunities in the biggest film factory. on t.v. and in mumbai the maker of movies. when most big budget bollywood hits on my. head it's here that i find a town about one of the only woods most unlikely stop stop ok obviously getting it. don't buy this you might think. that news guys making that he. may decide been to get. more than 2000 stones artists are working in india but just 3 percent of them are women. you got your grandmother who wrote.
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in this male dominated industry he says it's not easy getting kicked and punched for some of bollywood's biggest dr so how much as you know you go 200 plus on the kind of thank you care and the person you need to. not challenge it i mean how do you let a kid know you can't come to that place is used to teaching the odds a lot story could easily be mistaken for a bollywood film script. her mother died when she was just a young girl and she grew up in poverty. in the with which i'm the only under so that on a beach or dam looks as if i'd like to. thank you for giving to god i'm really going to the fuller main. the guy who kind of gave up on those i. support named the local. but her marriage was mobbed by her
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husband's alcohol fuelled violence at the age of 20 with her 2 young children she fled the house and sought refuge in a temple. middleton marking the telling where warning before development of anna. so many other places in the after working a series of low paid jobs. with an offer to. casey x. and. vanity fair you whether given. the privileges go what's it is it examined do they like and what everybody. here was. just as i was. it was elected. cable television many there is a. little speck of one of them with those aside for preservation really. she
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began teaching herself. and he's now one of just a handful of women willing to drive cars at breakneck speed. on fire for a shock. knows the dangers of the job only too well he's had a fair share of injured including fracturing her spine earlier in her career. the 1st interview with the mundane a 5. minute comic yemeni. as i made a conditional get. rid of the cover we. got a national. guard me it how many of us already covered we were going to go there was only said but so he was this is a. hundreds of stunts layers of. career earnings help the bar the apartment where she now lives with her 2 children.
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but to keep our kitchen. and that is the confidence and i'm with you now she dreams of becoming used to read. but miss out on. it kind of in the month of my disease down must have been a great ever known you know mainly by having them on. the back. of. the studio precinct not far away the crime to here is getting these stockmen ready to film the fight so. i just 35 has risen quickly through the ranks to become one of hollywood's most popular stunt directives you just. do what the cuts are going to do you just take your time when the scripts are peachy but you just leave it. be just really stupid secrecy because. you.
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before he started choreographing and directing action scenes. was a stockman himself. have done the buy. cars tons of them did. the fire so every kind of stunt i've done. i knowing all the studies by yourself you can direct all the stunts but then you should feed all the stunts before going to that as an action that the outlook a paper cut back up in the. oh yeah. it's got to. come. today was chasing evolved from a great heart and slippery trying. for dramatic effect the film director also wants to i drank. says film sets always throw up unique challenges for the stunt director
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. you should have to call for homework offical rehearsal and all for safety's. movies have been passive the critics live since he was just a boy. his father was a veteran stuntman and decrement often accompanied him to film sets. i just grown up watching him and sometimes he comes at home but injuring the shoulder and when i used to say man i used to cry hey what happened to dad was the only source of money for us in this town men used to get paid very little. very well they didn't tells me that supervisors like you must now have at least i e's
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experience as a stuntman. do you sometimes get worried or very concerned when you're getting stuff and ready for a shoot every time when i go to the set and for my each and every stone which i was risky i'm always scared. biology raga says his brother today was scared to before performing his final least hint. at this lake outside bangalore the stuntman jumped to his death in an instant which shocked india. in the boat i think it was a month or. even. more than one door across to go by the kid again the woman live on.
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the money. but there were. a lot of organ in the world. in nov 26th days the movie must be good it was being filmed on these cop waters where the director insisted on wide action stunts instead of the usual effects in a pivotal scene today and another stuntman annele had to jump 60 feet from a helicopter into the like with the knight actor. out of a state of the on the on the video time and soon one of the last after. i've recorded the letter to the press so standard life dug a demagogue all along the way you would expect. a
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lindale what other guess amount of good either. you know but. what about. what happened. there were no safety precautions no rescue divers jet skis gripes cornets instead of a spectacular action saying the camera recorded the 2 men tranny the star of the film who was wearing a life jacket survived. the miller what is it so. growth on the level of black grease a body. under god. while the film was reportedly a box office he is today family receive just $30000.00.
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to today no one has been held responsible for the deaths. and then i'm a little burned out on one of the only law. i'm going to do that. mission or live on the amount of that along with dollar gas money that i did not guess that is going to. leave. your loved. one of the not. going to let you know problem other than the above. such accidents and a lack of support for the stunt artists prompted bollywood's biggest action star to step in. akshay kumar is one of the country's highest paid actor he often performs dangerous stunts giving him the nickname is jackie chan. i do perform my own stunts and because of that it gives me
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a lot of understanding what they go. i get paid a lot more lot 'd then not of people in the industry so we read then these people are doing the same thing but only thing is they are not actors they're just stuntman and they don't get paid a truly puts me. in 27 take action along with the surgeon launched india's 1st ever insurance scheme the bollywood's stunt. performers a cupboard for up to $9000.00 of medical treatment for injuries they sustained while working. for that if they break their name or if anything happens to the shin or they get burn marks they are people who look after them they get very well looked after in a lot of hospitals this year 2 people got hurt and one person got burnt so it is very essential. that they don't get the burden of paying money for the hurt which
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to get. loose all stunt performers have someone looking out for them in southern india with filmmakers don't have big bollywood budgets produces often cut corners it's leaving stan tarsus to bear the risk and the costs. are just like jolie bastida he's so a stunt director and professional car race with more than 850 films to his name. here for les for example many of the because every day you're not doing the same thing every day or lose something new new new so a problem is in your list clearly very. in the famous t.v. plantations of carolina jolie is working on a film featuring a cheek to say we're gonna it's a love affair and bad guys i'm going to put it to the degree but i think they'll
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think i don't have anybody in there but somebody bundle up a little bit more to move them around their words. today this filming the main chasing on winding public rugs the old thor she's had been a lucid but no one is here to monitor the safety. of her you know coming on the body of our neighbor's daughter they're very good at it it is hard to tell you're doing it knowing that. it is not like a hollywood delivered or doing studio it's what. we do that invented a movie to do that if i. lead.
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today like so many times before jolie relies on his instincts and good fortune to finish the stunt on high. but he hasn't always been so. this is one of those where my. 11. jim but i've already injured. and there are 2 of the bombers to blast after they pass the bike but he had between turned on the brake so you couldn't see anything they landed on the ground straight so you there matilde a little queen call over
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a little 4 lives for one month they was all speculation now you don't tell anybody to become a star and when it's not worth it. you risk your life once you get to enjoy but i'm mentally in the same room over there in the book. there are no statistics to accidents on indian film sets but what's clear is performances given little training time to practice dance. outside bangalore was one of the country's done school that is devoted to preparing the next generation of daredevils. qassam rocket is a guru and founder of this academy. where might be read a bit i'm what i can make it start again i am the father make that i'm really important. made that so many.
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students are toward everything they need to perform dangerous. we thank them for all doing this they jim's. part of the road for diode rules so most of america most so a lot of them don't know all the domestic merchants from. the day minimum 2 to 3 years to become a stern demand 3 years 10 men or 2 years they have to work that out this year then you become a martyr. you pass out and work as a stump director. and since film directors need to take safety issues more seriously they have to plan and the how to make business. great car be the. same thing. that the plan probably. some of india's leading drama
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schools invite haasan to take their aspiring actors by 6 stunt skills both 8 to 10 times but. he is equally demanding exercises to keep the students on their time yes. come on i'm coming up. i have got one last on what i'll call you are you feel not done properly when i watch your icon of so you drill sergeant putting these people through their paces. squatting i think quite frankly. it's no surprise to discover that he was once an army officer and gym instructor to. do this i want to. say. oh ok yes i'm.
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also runs workshops underprivileged children at the academy so they can learn the basics of stunt work but without the knowledge people leaves india still meet the street can offer them a base a lot of. play money and also the. military out of it with a. shake of body shape. in his 1st week here at your old morally he's quite literally the right. lieutenant in the company general you're going to cause he will love that he cannot be seen what is this stunt you truth to bring. me. what is your favorite activity stunt school and gaged oh i didn't. know yeah
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action already is a thing wished on the not for a thing and i wish i would go up that in the united afraid. and then there's him along we're doing. it before we go stop mostow haasan wants to show us the key to a good fine thing featuring some of his best graduates thank god i know . that's what i thought oh that's the good old scenario where one man is cornered. cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut indian cinema is wildly popular thanks to such high octane action scenes but the guru nods the stuntman behind such artistry are often forgotten we have are known people be added behind the feet beyond the screen play.
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