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a lot of the country's fortunes we bring you the stories in developments the rapidly changing the world we live in give breaks it doesn't matter what the slogan that whatever the problem is the boris johnson counting the cost on al-jazeera. rice at terrifying speeds leap off sky scrapers and jump through 5. stop before ms are the unsung heroes of indian cinema for a meager wage they put their bodies on the line for the country's biggest stars. not everyone can be a trying to prove stunt man off on river and save not only his life i'm carrying them make him look good while doing so but accidents on film sets a comedy something even in didn't do. what i wanted east meets the indian stand for it's risking it all for the brought lots of balls.
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jumping gallery believes the danger from acrobatics to be leaks. peak he was born on a bike the bollywood stunt like. the tricks of the tribe from the internet just gave. me money and freedom and. for tonight's game you take the stunts give partner to give or do they give. up their thought that the minute i get. a. job that grew up in some hot oven pool a small industrial town in you will keep you. there yeah yeah and maybe start to manage that and out of it all mentees guy get the sequel he's out of his subordinate like audience aboard the family support. like many boys he did job and
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chose to work as a mechanic because of his passion for most of us. some bikes started scott. there they stand that we have been starting them like i think i'm going to big them. or that's too much he bites and i mean part of the. very few guys like him neither of us. today he practiced stunts in the forest and 5 this river. to give me another handle of the garden if i need to give him a start you can leave out of me again but if you get started i'm out of those love with any idea to be there. aren't going to. come looking aside and polygyny make 10 men into our tiny minister and start to get a subliminal dig that is they had a message you probably got to. pay out a bike it was
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a dead weight means that many of. the white synagogues that you had 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 many go to me a ball of ice a book maybe action director a foreign army with india going to be stunned when my not going to go to school. to get the one many sets and i probably. just did love his job but says being a stunt double for big action stars swayze. will be action will be impeaching starting mental day on the stand men go down there is
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that tough. guy that i'm going to do with the past i mean that he can. help me do that they are. if you know they get him. he won the. job of a path white house of poverty that they were. down a is in the give me on is about as was said to me a don't isn't that you do have. to said he go to very well. well. you go to madonna. with around 2000 films made in india every year there's no shortage of opportunities in the biggest film factory.
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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. one of the only woods most unlikely stunt star ok i obviously. don't buy this you might think. that i knew guys making that he. made us not going to get. more than 2000 stunt artists working in india but just 3 percent of them are women . are gullible much older who are. in this male dominated industry he says it's not easy getting kicked and punched
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for some of hollywood's biggest actress and how much as you know you go $200.00 plus in the kind of but i could care and it doesn't need to. be not challenging i mean how do you know you can't tell me that pieces used to teaching the august the last 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 damn looks as if i might. thank you to get me to it got i'm really going to the fuller main. the guy who kind of gave up on those idler to. support named. marriage was mobbed by her husband's alcohol few violence at the i.g. 20 with her 2 young children she fled the house and sought refuge in
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a temple. to tell him we're already development on so many many other days in the after working a series of low paid jobs. with an offer to stop them but she was just reading the basic exam and devote me to vanity value whether given. the privileges goto most it is a examine do they like and whatever body. of people was. still as i was. it was elected not. over time like a man there. just to get one of them with those aside for a visit was really. she began teaching herself. and he's now one of just a handful of women willing to drive cars a breakneck speed. fire for a shock. knows the dangers of the job only too well he's had
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a fair share of injured including fracturing her spine earlier in her career. first in to do with the mundane a 5. minute. subeditor as i made a conditional get. rid of the governor we. got a national. guard me of how many of us already covered we were running go there was only said but so he was this is a. hundreds of stunts later. says. the playing. career earnings helped by the apartment where she now lives with her 2 children. but to give kitchen. confidence and i'm with you now she dreams of becoming a. saudi
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kingdom with my disease down must have been a great ever long enough. to go down. to the precinct not far away from here is gives me a stuntman ready to film a fight so. i just 35 has risen quickly through the ranks to become one of bollywood most popular stunt directors because if. i do what the critics of the agencies. hollywood squares a beach in the park we just live. pictures here so if you want to see it just. before he started choreographing directing action scenes. was a stuntman himself. have done the by. car stunt the.
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good the fire so every kind of stunt i've done. i knowing all the studies by yourself then you can direct all the stunts little you should feed all the stunts before going to that as an action that was going to get better come back up in the . oh yeah. it's got to. today's 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 . you should have to call for homework offered rehearsal and all for safety's.
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movies have been passive the critics live since he was just a boy. his father was a veteran stuntman and often accompanied him to film sets. just . watching him and sometimes he comes at home with some injuring the shoulder and when i used to say man i used to cry hey what happened to dad is the only source of money for us in this town men used to get paid very low. very obedient to crime tells me that supervisors like him must now have at least a easy experience as a stuntman. to 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
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risky i am always scared. biology raga says he's 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. months or. even. more than one door across to go by the kid again the woman live on. the money. but there are. a lot of will get an award. in november 26th date the movie must be good it was being filmed on these
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complexes where the director insisted on wide action stunts instead of visual effects in a pivotal scene today and another stockman annele had to jump 60 feet from a helicopter into the like with the main actor. for stating that on the on the video time and i was in one of the last. i've recorded the letter to the press so standard lead. 6 packs. a loon they live whatever gets. you know by. one of them. there were no safety precautions no rescue
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diver. 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. like grease a body. under god. while the film was reportedly a box office he's days family receive just $30000.00. to today no one has been held responsible for the deaths. than a millennium burned out on one of the only law. compared to the. mission
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. of the nec yesterday that. your loved. one of the. problem other than the with. 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. thinking of the nickname india's jackie chan. i do perform my own stunts and because of that it gives me a lot of understanding what they go through i get paid a lot well far more lot 'd then i know of people in the industry so we read then these people are doing the same thing but only thing is they're not actors they're
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just stuntman and they don't get paid a truly puts me. in 27 takes akshay kumar along with the surgeon launched india's 1st ever insurance scheme the bali blitz stunt. performers a cupboard for up to $9000.00 of medical treatment for injuries they sustained while working. but if they break their name or if anything happens to the shin or they get burnt 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 herd which to get. loose all stunt performers have someone looking out for them in southern india where filmmakers don't have big bollywood budgets produces often cut
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corners it's leaving stan tarsus to bear the risk and the costs. are just like jolie dusty and 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 the earl is clearly very. in the famous tea plantations of carolina charlie is working on a film featuring a cheap to say we're gonna it's a love affair and bad guys i'm going to put some of them were to give it i think about that but i think i don't have any of that it's everyone doing the little bit more to move them around their word. today this filming the main chasing on one thing public rugs the old thor she's had been
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a lucid but no one is here to monitor the safety. of her freak out of coming on but the other board members are there do they do this they are going to you're doing it knowing that. it is not like a hollywood delivered or doing studio stuff but. they do that in bins in the movie dude that is 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 lucky this is one of those where my. thanks. to a big jim but i've already injured. and there do the bombers to blast after they pass the bike but he had to be free in front of the break so you couldn't see anything landed on the ground straight so you there matilde a world where the color of 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 enjoyment but i'm mentally in the same room over there in the book.
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there are no statistics to accidents on indian film sets but what's clear is performance a given little trying time to practise dance. outside bangalore lies 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 a kind of. a word of it i am with that i can make it start again i am the father make that i'm really important. made that so many. students are toward everything they need to perform dangerous.
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we thank them for all doing this they gyms. are part of the growth of diode rules so most of next and most are so a lot of them don't know all the domestic momentum from. the day minimum 2 to 3 years to become a stern demand 3 years 10 men and their 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 a plan and the how to make business. great car be the. same thing. that the plan probably. some of india's leading drama schools invite haasan to take their aspiring actors basics down skills say anything but. he
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is equally demanding exercises that keep the students on their time this. going i'm going to. have got one last 110000 do 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 officer and gym instructor to. do this i want to. say. oh ok i'm. also runs workshops underprivileged children at the academy so they can learn the basics of stunt work but without the knowledge he believes india still need the street can offer them a better life. brain one and also ingredient every minute of it with
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a. shake of body shape. in his 1st week here year old morally he's quite literally the right. lieutenant governor going to turn you're going to get he has a king who will listen he will. not be seen what is this stump you truth to be the only connection. what is your favorite activity stunt school and gage. done in oh yeah add chandelier all ideas at the wished. for a thing and i wish i would go up there in that in light of the fading. and their new 7 hours no one. here before we got stopped masta haasan wants to show us
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the key to a good fight saying that featuring some of his best graduates thank god you are right but i doubt it but good old scenario where one man is cornered. the to. cut. cut. cut in the cinema is wildly popular thanks to such high often action scenes but the guru nods the stockmen behind such artistry are often forgotten we had unknown people be added behind the feet beyond the screen. i. think in a film industry shorts or safeguards pushing their lives on the line he's cool in a day's work for these dead it was with a train. 1.3000000000
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