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tv   Bollywoods Stunt Performers  Al Jazeera  May 24, 2020 7:32pm-8:01pm +03

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rice terrifying speeds. and jump through 5. stop before are the unsung heroes of indian cinema for a meager wage they put their bodies on the line for the country's biggest star. not everyone here can be drawn through the stunt man north on bourbon not only. make them look good while green but accidents on film sets a comic song even in didn't do. what i want east meets the indian stunt of risking it all for the bright lights above.
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believes the danger from acrobatics to be leaks. he was born on a bike the bollywood stuntman. the tricks the trite throng the internet just give. me money freedom and a. fortnight's good video to. give partner to do they give. me is something i think that the men and i. grew up in somehow didn't pull a small only dust real town in you will keep you. there yeah yeah maybe start a man and have it all mentees gaiety the sequel he's out of his. family support.
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like many boys here job chose to work as a mechanic because of his passion for mostly by. some. stunts. starting them like i think i'm going to the big. that's too much he bites at anybody. but he forgot that i need that if i was. off today he practiced stunts in the forest and by this river. is to give me another middle of the cabin if i need to give him a starting got to keep me by to me to get started i'm out of those know without any idea to be going to get me. started going. i'm looking. for time he managed to start to get the fundamental dig that is sad to me. they are biking but that's
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a dead weight means that many of. the bites him of course that i've got to get. after appearing on a television talent show he was scouted to work on big action films across india. along the way he smashed. 7 cards and he's. betting reading books need to. do that to me or many to me able as a book maybe action director a foreign army with india going to eastern men my not going to go to school. to get the one many subjects and i probably will have a. job you'd love his job but says being a stunt double for big action stars swayze. will be action movie you don't get those competing starting men all day or the
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stand men go down there is that. does that i mean get it in the past i mean that he can make in. the middle that they are. if you know they get him look here when they're. given job or a pathway out of poverty that they were down a little down in the way on is about as you said taking me. another. 10 to go do very well. well to me like the best. place for me to go down the road. 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 a town about one of the only woods most unlikely stop stop ok i obviously. don't buy this you might think. that i knew you guys making that he. made us not going to get. more than 2000 stones artists working in india but just 3 percent of them are women. you got your grandmother who. in this male dominated industry he says it's not easy getting kicked and punched for some of
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bollywood's biggest dr so how much does he know you bought 200 bucks on the kind of but i could get some and he. did not challenge it i mean how do you let a kid know you can't tell me that cliche 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. isn't here with which i'm the only undersea that on a beach or dam looks as if i might. get me toward god i'm really going to the fuller main. the guy who called again upon 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 places in the after working a series of low paid jobs. with an offer to good is the stuff which if i was just reading the basic exam and devote me to vanity value whether given the events the privileges go what's it is it examined do the like and whatever body. of people was. just the love i was selfish it was elected not. to. cables are like a man there. just back up 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 his spine earlier in her career. first in to do with the mundane a fight the. sub bed as i made a conditional get. rid of the governor we. got a national. guard me of how many of us we were running that there was only said but says he was this is a. hundreds of stunts layers of. the playing. career earnings helped by the apartment where she now lives with her 2 children. but to keep our kitchen. confidence and i'm with you now she dreams of becoming a stunt director. but
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saudi kingdom was my disease down must have been a 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 the woods most popular stunt directors he chooses. to do what the critic of the new jersey. tell you what it's going to be chilly but we just. we just really that's ok i think this is just. before he started choreographing and directing action scenes. was a stockman himself. have done the buy. done car stunt did
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that. did the fire so every kind of stunt i've done. i knowing all the studies by yourself done you can direct all the stunts little you should feed all the stunts before going to that in action there was no paper cuts for the. oh yeah. i. got it. 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 . you should have to call for homework offered rehearsal and all for safety's.
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movies have been passive recruits live since he was just a boy. his father was a veteran stuntman and decrement 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 was the only source of money for us in this town men used to get paid very little. very well they didn't pick from tells me that supervisors like him must now have at least a easy experience as a stuntman. do you sometimes get worried or very concerned when you're getting stopped 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'm always scared. biology raga says he's brother today was scared to before performing his final least. at this lake outside bangalore the stuntman jumped to his death in an instant which shocked india. he got a little but i think it was a month or. more than one door across to go buy a ticket again the woman live on. the money. but there were. a lot of the good in the war on our border or the guy. in nov 26th days 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 the usual effects in a pivotal scene today and another stuntman and you'll have to jump 60 feet from a helicopter into the like with the main actor. out of a state of the on the on the video time and soon one of the last after. i've recorded that letter to the press so standard doug a demagogue there you would expect. kind of. a loon they look whatever gets amount of good either. you know but. what about i'm going to go to work and. there were no safety
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precautions no rescue divers jet skis ropes 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 fall of black 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. and then amalek i'm burned out on one of the i want to. suck out of them i'm going
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to do that. mission live on the amount of that on the dollar because money that i did not guess that is going to. leave. your loved. one of the not. going to let you know a problem other than the above that. such accidents and a lack of support for stunt tatas prompted bollywood's biggest action star to step in. akshay kumar is one of the country's highest paid actors 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 a lot of understanding what they go. i get paid a lot of far more lot 'd then lot 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 just
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stuntman and they don't get paid a truly puts me. in 27 take akshay kumar along with a 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 or if anything happens to the shin or they get burnt marks they are people who look after them they get very very 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 hollywood 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 bask in the so a stunt director and professional car race with more than 850 films to his name. here for les for the many of the because every day you're not doing the same thing every day or lose something new new news so a problem is in your list clearly very early. in the famous tea plantations of carolyn to go to chile he is working on a film featuring the cheapest i know 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 think i don't have anybody there but somebody bundle up a little bit more to come around their word. today this filming the main chasing on winding 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 great job because of the body of the ordinary but all the good it is not going to you're doing it knowing that. you do not like hollywood delivered or doing studios but. they do that invented a movie to do that if i. lead .
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today like so many times before joey relies on his instincts and good fortune to finish the stunt on the high. but he hasn't always been sort of. his orders from. 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 brakes so you couldn't see anything landed on the ground straight so you there matilde a world where color a little forwards for one monday was all speculation no don't tell anybody to become a star and when it's not worth it. it is clearly for the ones who get enjoyment but i'm mentally in the same room over them that.
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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 lies one of the country's done school that is devoted to preparing the next generation of daredevils. house and rob is a guru and founder of this academy. might be a bit of it i'm like that i can make it start again i am the father make that i'm really important. made that so many. students are towards everything they need to perform dangerous.
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we thank them for all doing this they jim's. part of growth for a diode rules some of our backs and 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 under 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 takes their aspiring actors by 6 stunt skills both $8.00 to $10.00 times but.
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he is equally demanding exercises to keep the students on their time yes. come on i'm coming up. i have got one last 110000 do you feel not done properly when i watch your icon of say a 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 jim instructed to. do this i want to. say. oh ok yes i'm. 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 me the street can offer them a better lot. gray morning in green and even military because of the.
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shape of body shape. in his 1st week here at your old morally he's quite literally the right. lieutenant in the company general. has a can he will love that he will. not be seen what is this stunt you dream to bring . to me. what is your favorite activity stunt school and gaged oh i didn't know their name oh yeah add 40 years of them wished. for a thing and i wish i would go up that in the united were fading. and their new 7 hours we're doing. it before we got stopped masta haasan wants to show us the
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key to a good fight things are featuring some of his best graduates i was like oh that's like good old scenario where one man is cornered. cut. cut. cut 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 are known people we had a behind the feet beyond the screen. i. think in a film industry shorts or safeguards coursing 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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