 | | THERE SHE BLOWS: A scene from the film |
Action just got bigger. Rohit Shetty has spent a whopping
Rs 1.5 crore blowing up 19 cars while shooting for a chase sequence for his film Sunday.
Rohit laughs, “People are now calling me the car blow-up director as in Golmaal too I had blown up 12 cars. Producers Ashtavinayak (Golmaal) and Kumar Mangat (Sunday) are now mentally prepared every time I shoot. They know I will blow up cars. I guess I have a genetic problem. My dad (action director Shetty) loved blowing up cars and now I am following in his footsteps. My son Ishaan, too, at 18 months only talks about cars!”
Capital call
Rohit says the 19 cars were blown up on different sets in Pragati Maidan in Delhi, and on the streets. “It will be one of the biggest car chase sequences you have ever seen.
It involves Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi and Irrfan Khan being followed and after the cars blow up, there is a handfight with the goons. This time I think I went overboard,” Rohit grins. Rohit says each car cost between Rs 2 to 8 lakh. “The total cost of the car sequence would be about 1.5 crore.
There was lots of equipment, six camera set-ups, fighters and 100 cars to create traffic. We set up various sets a market, a restaurant, a street full of traffic etc. There was this car chase that required 100 cars daily to create traffic as it’s a very big action sequence.”
Masaledaar
Sunday is a comedy thriller with lots of action or a “total masala film,” as the young director likes to call it. The car chase gave Rohit many anxious moments, “We had to be careful as human lives were involved. During a few scenes, I had my heart in my mouth one of the three cars had Arshad and Irrfan inside.
In one scene when a gas cylinder bursts, both of them fly 25 feet above. Then there were guys in a van that was being dragged by a cable car; I was tense but took precautions and fortunately there were no accidents.”
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