You cheer them, you encourage them, you bite your nails and sit on the edge of the couch holding your breath. Then you jump up and dance. You always do this whenever your hero jumps from a 100 feet tower, drives the car over a bridge or does some other equally heroic act. Escpecially so if you are a child or a male.
But you do know for that all these heroic acts are not performed by your favorite hero but by a stuntsman whose name nobody knows and nobody cares. When Sr Bachanji got seriously hurt decades back in a stunt the entire nation was with him. But these men fall, get hurt, many a times will become invalids for life or even lose their life. Do we ever notice this fact?
In NatGeo channel they were showing a young man who did not have the word "fear" in his vocabulary, named Vidya Shetty. He used to perform many types of stunts for different actors including jumping from helicopter. In one such action he fell and hurt his neck, due to which he has became paralyzed. He did not even get insurance money as the accident took place in the practice jump.
A man was also explaining that in Hollywood, there will be a safety manager in the film production unit who will ensure that such accidents do not happen. But not here in our India. Here the stuntsman is on his own. He is good as long he is healthy and alive, both of which can not be guaranteed.
But you do know for that all these heroic acts are not performed by your favorite hero but by a stuntsman whose name nobody knows and nobody cares. When Sr Bachanji got seriously hurt decades back in a stunt the entire nation was with him. But these men fall, get hurt, many a times will become invalids for life or even lose their life. Do we ever notice this fact?
In NatGeo channel they were showing a young man who did not have the word "fear" in his vocabulary, named Vidya Shetty. He used to perform many types of stunts for different actors including jumping from helicopter. In one such action he fell and hurt his neck, due to which he has became paralyzed. He did not even get insurance money as the accident took place in the practice jump.
A man was also explaining that in Hollywood, there will be a safety manager in the film production unit who will ensure that such accidents do not happen. But not here in our India. Here the stuntsman is on his own. He is good as long he is healthy and alive, both of which can not be guaranteed.
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