Sanjay Dutt performed a stunning action sequence for his new film ‘Luck’. He jumped from a speeding train, blindfolded and with his hands tied behind his back without any cables or dummies!
When we spoke to Soham Shah, the director of Luck, about 50 plus Dutt's scary sequence he said, "It's Sanju's introductory sequence. He jumps, along with other actors, from a running train, blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back.""It's about these characters testing their luck. We set up cables and kept harnesses ready. So, if anything went wrong Sanju would not be injured. But when we narrated the scene to him, he said he didn't want to use any safety measures or dummies. He was kicked about shooting such a high-voltage action scene on his own." Action director Allan Amin led the action team.
Soham adds, "The train sequence with five running trains was technically impossible to set up in Mumbai or any other big city, so we shot in Goa. The authorities helped us change guards and some trains were kept on standby for a couple of days on two railway tracks. It was a very expensive shoot. A five-day shoot with five trains a day cost us over Rs 1.5 crore."
At a time when Mumbai railway authorities are accosting people for walking on the tracks, what have we here...Sanju Baba jumping off trains!
Dutt who is clearly not daunted by such script demands, even at this age said, "I hadn't shot such a hard-core action sequence in a long time, so when the opportunity arose, I decided to do it myself. Initially, I was a bit nervous but then I gauged the jump from the cage in the train to the tracks. After the jump, we had to speed away from the train, and keep running. For that split second, I had my heart in my mouth but fortunately, things went well."
StarBoxOffice salutes his dare-devilry spirit, but we can't say if such hi-jinks will prove to be of any luck for the film when it hits screens this moonsoon.
