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Amitabh Bachchan did tiger stunt after son Abhishek was born
Amitabh Bachchan insisted on performing a dangerous tiger stunt in the 1976 film ‘Khoon Pasina’ after learning his son Abhishek had been born. Veteran action master Mohan Baggad recalled the incident, saying…
The Story in Brief
Amitabh Bachchan insisted on performing a dangerous tiger stunt in the 1976 film ‘Khoon Pasina’ after learning his son Abhishek had been born. Veteran action master Mohan Baggad recalled the incident, saying Bachchan declared, "A lion has been born in my house" and stepped in to shoot the scene himself.
Baggad had been performing the sequence for two days. The tiger had no training and its mouth was stitched shut, which made it aggressive. Baggad said the animal knocked him unconscious during the shoot. He also revealed that Dharmendra did a leopard stunt in ‘Kartavya’ without a body double.
The Indian Opinion
The nostalgia around 'real' stunts often ignores the animal cruelty involved, tigers with stitched mouths, terrified and angry. It is easy to romanticise an era when stars were 'brave', but harder to defend the lack of safety for both performers and animals. The real question is not whether Amitabh was fearless, but whether the industry today would let such a scene happen at all.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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