Amitabh Bachchan refused body-double for breaking glass pane in ad, says action director

Amitabh Bachchan, who had performed many action sequences in his younger days, refused to have a body twofold double when he recently got an opportunity to do a stunt. A stunt person was hired to play out an action sequence for the veteran actor in an ad shoot, however he denied and said he would be performing his own stunts.

Action director Manohar Verma, who choreographed the action sequence, told ETimes, “We were prepared with a body double but when Mr Bachchan came on set he told the director that he would prefer to perform his own stunts. We had to take a lot of precautions, too.”

The stunt required Amitabh to crush three toughened glass panes one after the other, and Manohar recalled that the actor did it in almost one take for each of them. He said, “Mr Bachchan aced it like a pro and he clearly symbolises the fact that age is just a number. Those who were present on set were reminded of the angry young man of Deewaar and Zanjeer.”

Amitabh had also posted the ad shoot on his Instagram handle and his Tumblr blog last month. Sharing a photo that showed him smashing a glass pane, he had written, “After 53 years and age 80 .. there are some things that never change .. action.”

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