Here's one actor who has pulled off more stunts in real life than in films. Muzamil Ibrahim, who has won several bravery awards, shares his life's five bravest moments with CS

Putting up a brave front

Here's one actor who has pulled off more stunts in real life than in films. Muzamil Ibrahim, who has won several bravery awards, shares his life's five bravest moments with CS:

Talk show
Everyone laughs at this one, but I thought I was being very brave when I gave a speech for the first time in school. I must have been in the third or fourth standard, and my topic was pollution or global warming. I said the speech so fast that no one could make out head or tail of anything that I said.
All they could understand was 'I'm Muzamil Ibrahim' and the 'Thank you' that followed at the end of the speech. I was blushing by the end of it and the audience forgot to clap! I think I was very brave to have lived through it.u00a0

Student saviour
I can never forget the time when I saved a fellow student from drowning in 1992. I was barely eight-years-old then. I received the Rashtrapati Award for bravery in 1994 from the then President Shankar Dayal Sharma. That was a great moment for me.

Water God
The Robinhood trait continued and two years ago, I again saved a 55-year-old British woman from drowning in Goa while I was vacationing there. I was bestowed a Godfrey Philips Bravery Award for the feat.

Man in the mirror
Another brave moment was when I reached the finals of a manhunt contest in 2003. Karan Johar, who was on the panel of judges tossed a bouncer at me asking, "Is it vain to look in the mirror?" To that I replied, "No, because I am good enough to look in the mirror." I knew that I had given a brave answer when KJo stood up to clap for me.

Braving the camera
I was really nervous when I faced the camera for the first time in my life. I had no experience as an actor, but once the camera started rolling, a strange confidence swept through me. Everything suddenly fell into place and I became totally at ease with myself.