Monday, February 1, 2010

Shreyas Talpade's horrifying stunt



Shreyas Talpade has been recently working on his latest movie 'Click' which seems to be a paranormal psychological thriller. On the set of this movie while Shreyas for filming for a crucial scene he met with an accident. In the scene Shreyas had to fall backward off the 3 rd floor iron railing of the building. Though Shreyas was tied to the harness and had to fall backward on the crash mat on the ground.

When the director shouted action, the assistant faltered a bit due to wrong timing & Shreyas went upside down with his head, instead of his back, in the direction of the ground, Shreyas could feel his blood rushing in his head from the free fall to the ground but just before reaching ground zero, the assistant recovered from his initial shock & pulled the harness. Shreyas was left suspended inches from the ground, where he could have had his neck snapped up! The whole unit heaved a sigh of relief and the director asked Shreyas if they could shoot with a body double, but Shreyas insisted that he would like to do it again, since he did not want to compromise on the expressions on the crucial shot.
And after rehearsing with the right body technique of falling backward with the body control &timing of releasing the harness & taking all precautions , Shreyas shot again to give a perfect shot which is the highlight of the film.