tv Bollywoods Stunt Performers Al Jazeera May 25, 2020 8:33am-9:00am +03
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i believe it's lost in the u.s. . who's held responsible i will be fabulously wealthy and i will not pay any price for it thank the lord the men who still live on al-jazeera. say rice at terrifying speeds leap off sky scrapers and jump through 5. stop before miss 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 can be a trying to prove stunt man off on river and save not only his life. they make him look good while doing so but accidents on film sets accomplish something even in didn't do. what i wanted east meets the indian stunt it's risking it all for the brought lots of balls.
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john the gallery believes the danger from acrobatics to be leaks. in feet he was born on a bike the bollywood stuntman. the tricks of the trite from the internet just give. me money and freedom and. for tonight's game you take the stunts give partner to do they get. up there think that the minute i get. a. job that grew up in somehow didn't pull 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 body and support the family support. like many boys 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 by this river. is if you beat another vendor of the garden if i need you to give him a start you've got to keep anybody me to get started i'm out of those love with any idea to be going to give you. time to come and. i'm looking outside and when the police union make noise 10 men into our tiny minister and start to get the subliminal dig that is ahead of me as
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a new public i'm going to. pay out a bike as a template means that me and i'm in. the white same accord 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 box 7 cars and. betting reading books need to. do that to me or many go to me able as a book maybe action director for another name india got to be started when my not going to go to school. get the one many sets and i would probably. just did loves his job but says being a stunt double for big action stars swayze. will be action will be. starting mental day on the stand men go down that is that tough
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. guy that i mean that i did 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. stunned that they were done a little down a is when they get me on is about as was said to me. too said. very well. well. for me. i work. 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 woods most unlikely stunt star ok i'll be able to get you. don't buy this you might think. that these guys make their teeth on you but now that it made us i've been to get. more than 2000 stunt artists working in india but just 3 percent of them are women . you got your grandmother 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 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. in the with which and the owner said that on a beach or damn we'll see if i'd like to. thank you to get me to it got i'm really going to the fuller main. the theater. of support named. her marriage was marred by her husband's alcohol you violence at the age of 20 with her 2 young children she fled back house and refuge in
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a temple. you have to tell him we're already. so many other days in the after working a series of low paid jobs. with an offer to stop. x.m. and devote me to vanity fair you whether given. the privileges go most it is a examine do they lie and when everybody. came i was. still as i was. it was elected not. to cable television many there is a. little speck of one of them with those aside the question was merely. she began teaching her. and he's now one of just a handful of women willing to drive cars at breakneck speed. far 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. with the 1st interview with them in a fidelity. subeditor as i made a conditional get. for the cover we. got a national. guard me of how many of us already covered we were running that there was only said but so he was this is a. hundreds of stunts later. gaijin says it's all been worth the playing. career earnings helped by the apartment where she now lives with her 2 children. a name is able to see it. but to give a kitchen. that is the confidence and i want it now she dreams of becoming a stunt director. michael no
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ma'am is out individual my days is done must have been a ever long enough mainly by the name of. the guy that. she did a precinct not far away the ground here is gives me stuntman ready to film the fight so. i just 35 has risen quickly through the ranks to become one of hollywood's most popular stunt director you just. do what the critical if you think of the hollywood script which the part you just played and. you just really see if you want to see. you. before he started choreographing and directing action scenes. with the stuff and himself. i've done the by. cost of the. good the fire so every kind of stunt i've done.
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i knowing all the stunts by yourself you can direct all the stunts because you should feed all the stunts before going to that and action very loud to keep it because the folks in the. oh yeah. you got to. do. today was chasing evolved from a great heart and so. bre trying. for dramatic effect the film director also wants to i drank. says film sets always throw up unique challenges the stunt director. should have to call for homework often rehearsal and all for safety's.
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movies have been passive the cribs lot since he was just a boy. his father was a veteran stuntman and a vicar i'm often accompanied him to film sets. i just grown up watching him and sometimes comes at home but enjoying 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 little. very well they didn't pick from tells me that supervisors like him must now have at least i e's experience as a stuntman. do you sometimes get. very concerned when you're getting stuck in 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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a risky i'm always scared. biology says he's brother day. before performing his final movie stopped. at this lake outside bangalore the stockman jumped to his death in an instant which shocked. because to go by the kid again the woman live on. the money. but there were. a lot of good in the war on. nov 26th the movie must be good it was being filmed on these calm waters
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where the director insisted on wide action stunts instead of the usual effects in a pivotal scene today and another stuntman and you. had to jump 60 feet from a helicopter into the like with the main actor. out of. the video time on the scene one of the last. i reporter that there are press a standard live to get in a car going along the way you would expect. a loon they live whatever gets. you know about. there were no safety precautions no rescue divers. ripes cornets instead
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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. of the film was reportedly. box office here days family receive just $30000.00. to today no one has been held responsible for the deaths. scarce and then the miller complained on the phone one of the i want to. suck out
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of the now i'm going to do that. automation on the little model that along with all of his money that i did not guess that is going to. leave. your loved. one of the not. going to let you know a problem with another without. such accidents and a lack of support for stan 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 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 of far more lot 'd then lot of people in the industry so i read ben 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 it really hurts me. in 27 takes akshay kumar along with the surge it launched india's insurance scheme the bali blitz stunt. performers a cupboard for up to $9000.00 of medical treatment for injuries they sustained while working. for it if they break their knee or if anything happens to the shin or they get burnt marks they are people who to look after them they get very very looked after in a lot of hospitals this yr. and one person got burned so it is very essential. that they don't get the burden of paying money for the herd which to get. but not all stunt performers have someone looking out for them in southern india where filmmakers don't have big hollywood budgets produces often cut corners
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leaving stunt asses to bear the risk and the costs. are just like jolie bask in the so a stunt director and professional car raced with more than 850 films to his name. here for les for the many because every day you're not doing the same thing every day or lose something new new new so or problem is in your list clearly very early . in the famous tea plantations of carolina jolie is working on a film featuring a cheaper single we're gonna it's a love affair and bad guys i'm going to put some of them were to agree but i'm thinking about the book coming out of any of them it's everyone dealing with the ability 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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today like so many times before joey 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. 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 he could not see anything landed on the ground straight so you there matilde a world where color for lives for one month it was all speculation now don't tell anybody to become a star and when it's not worth it. you risk your life once you get to enjoy it 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 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. qassam rocket is a guru and founder of this account of. the weight of it i am what 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 is a gym's. part of growth for diode rules so most of next and most are so a lot of them don't know all the domestic moamar to from. the day minimum 2 to 3 years to become a sternum in 3 years 10 men or 2 years they have worked out the share 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 biz. credit card be the. same thing. that the planned public. some of india's leading drama schools invite haasan to takes their aspiring actors by 6 stunt skills plus a 10 day but. he basically demanding exercises to keep the students
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on their time yes. come on i'm going to. have got the last 110000 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 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 people leaves india still need the street can offer them a better life. game when you know sort of ingredient every minute of it with the.
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shape of the body shape. in his 1st week here year old morally he's quite literally the right. competitive tendering you're going to get as a kid who will love that he will. not be seen what is this stuff you dream of to be the only connection. what is your favorite activity stunt school and gaged oh i didn't. know yeah chin already is at the wished. for a thing and i wish i would go up there in the in light of the fading. and their new 7 hours the one. 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 thank god walk. out at the good old scenario where one man is corner of. the to. cut by. cutting the cinema is wildly popular thanks to such high octane 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 of safeguards coursing their lives on the line he's cool in a day's work for these dead events with a train. 1.3000000000
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