On the hoop, if the stunt doesn’t look right or there is a technical problem, they have to give another take and do exactly the same things again.
They worked four times more than professional performers do.
A professional acrobat who performs these stunts at circus and stage shows starts at 7 pm and finishes by 9 pm, with an interval in between.īut when you are shooting something like this, you have to shoot for 12 hours, and on an average they are suspended for may be six to seven hours. I had to encourage her.Īt the end of the day, both would have sore shoulders. I would feel bad but I can’t show that or else she will lose that spirit and energy. There were times when I was shaken at what this girl is going through. You would feel scared looking at all those marks. Katrina’s make-up had to be such that it covered all her bruises as she was black and blue.
They gave it their best without complaining for a single day. We were shocked that both Aamir and Katrina learnt everything so fast. When we started her hoop training, we started it at a two feet height till she learnt the technique and the choreography, and only then did we take it higher. K atrina said she did a sequence on the hoop, which had to keep rotating, and there was no harness as it may get entangled.Įven the hoop is wired, but yes they didn’t have a safety harness. Image: Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif in Malang from Dhoom 3 The riggers had come down from London so all the wire work and harness work was operated by them. They had to be 35 to 40 feet above ground, and that’s a lot There are times when I had to suspend them in the air for 16 seconds to 40 seconds or maybe more. Strap is very difficult because your entire body weight is on one right arm and shoulder.Īll the stunts are done by Aamir and Karina, no body doubles were used. Both Aamir and Katrina had to get trained in these apparatuses. Katrina had to be on the hoop, she also had to do strap sections and a trampling section. For this, they trained for a year-and-a-half, to get their bodies together.Īfter that they started special training. They knew they had to do rigorous physical training to look the part, and they had to look like acrobatic artistes.
Malang is a film within a film actually because it has taken as much time on pre-production as a small budget movie would take.īoth Aamir and Katrina knew their characters well in advance.