The actors while they are on the sets want to be the real time heroes resulting in heavy losses to the producers who invest heavily on them and even a day’s loss creates irrecoverable damages.
Suneil Shetty’s under water adventure leading chest pain and six weeks of rest thereafter followed by Katrina’s wounded legs on the same sets of “De Dana Dan” was in the news recently.
Now, it is the turn of Hrithik Roshan. He injured his hand while enacting a scene of breaking a glass pane in the sets of “Kites”. This injury resulted in two stitches in a private hospital in Andheri.
Yet another news is that Shahrukh’s hurting his left shoulder in “Dhulha Mil Gaya” leading to relapse during the shooting of “My Name is Khan”. Now he also may have to hit the bed and stay put for a considerable time if at all he is interested to regain his condition.
Not long ago, we came across Rahul Bose’ s near fatal incidence while performing a certain aerial stunt in “ Shourya” and before that Vivek Oberoi was on bed for some time due to accident on the sets of Maniratnam’s movie.
And there was Kaizad Gustad, a director who was arrested for culpable homicide due to death of a 26 year old British assistant, Nadia Khan hit by a speeding train while shooting for “Mumbai Central”.
Well, there must be a solution to this injury-mania where the loss is severe to the producers. Either the actors realise that they are more of shadows than real or follow Maniratnam’s recent formula where he trained his hero Abhishek like a commando before shooting his movie “Raavan” or insure each actor even for a small finger injury.