rahul bose

Except he didn’t, so you can all breathe easily. I never really understood why actors and actresses are fascinated with the idea of doing their own stunts. You have a stunt-double…use them! But some actors insist on doing their own stunts, whether it’s for the authenticity of the shot or just for the adrenalin rush. Rahul Bose is one of these actors, who had a mishap last week while doing a stunt.

“I had to do bungee jumping for Samar Khan’s ‘Shourya’. It is my character’s introductory scene. And I had never done bungee jumping in my life. I’m very sporty and have done a lot of adventure sports and I didn’t mind trying it out.

“These guys were from a Bangalore-based company called AWA Stunt Crew. They confidently told me that in the 12,000 jumps they’ve orchestrated so far, nothing has gone wrong.”

“They took me a hundred feet off the ground by crane. After two practice jumps they took me up in a cage and told me to be calm and breathe deeply.”

“I’m facing the camera which is on top of me. Then I fall backwards facing the camera in a swan-like swoop. A second camera had been set up to trace the arch of my fall. I leap off, and one foot down… I’m stuck! I look down frozen in descent and I see this yawning chasm.”

“Later I got to know I was 499 feet above ground level. Then I hear the guy above me say, ‘Oh shit, the harness has got stuck on the camera. Do you want me to let you go or pull you up? Suspended in mid-air I wonder what letting go means! I thought, ‘My family can’t have two deaths in one week.’ ”

“They pull me up. And I decide I won’t try the stunt again, at least not with those Bangalore experts who claim to have done 12,000 smooth bungee jumps. I realized later that those guys were completely freaked out by what happened to me. I declined to do the stunt again and returned to Mumbai. If something had given way, what then?”

Wow, talk about bad publicity. Guys, did you get that? AWA Stunt Crew…they will kill you, don’t use them for any of your bungee-jumping needs. But we’re all very glad that Rahul’s ok, because then how would we get another dose of him and Mallika Sherawat? I mean, the poor guy lost his dad recently…imagine how his family would feel if something had happened to him. To quote Brooke Shields “When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.”