Bhuvan Bam on scary horse-riding experience for The Revolutionaries: ‘I was shivering for 3 days’

Actor and YouTuber Bhuvan Bam who is gearing up for the release of his upcoming historical streaming series lsquoThe Revolutionariesrsquo has shared his scary horseriding experience for the showThe actor essays the role of the legendary freedom fighter Rash Behari Bose in the series As per the demand of the character the actor had to be adept at horseriding However his plans to master horseriding were foiled the moment he sat on a horse and it ran away with the actor on its backAfter a rather unfortunate first lesson involving a runaway horse at Juhu Beach Bhuvan spent the shoot trying to avoid getting back in the saddle until he found an unexpected solution for the showrsquos action sequenceRecollecting the experience Bhuvan shared ldquoSo they told me to learn horse riding It was a horse thatrsquos used for wedding functions and took me to Juhu Beach for training So basically what happened was that the caretaker was on a phone call and the horse simply ran off with me That was my first day of horseriding lessons If I had fallen from there I would probably still be bedridden today I was literally hanging from the horse and I was shivering for the next three days The incident reached Sir Nikkhil Advani and he took stock of the situation and I opened up to him and told him that lsquoSir the horse took me away without my permission Its leg was stuck in some plastic and it just kept running with mersquordquoHe further mentioned ldquoThe horseriding scene hadnrsquot come up yet and every day I would wake up thinking lsquoToday Irsquoll tell Sir Today Irsquoll finally gather the courage and tell him that I canrsquot do horse ridingrsquo Then there was a day when one scene went really well and sir was extremely happy I thought lsquoToday he is in a good moodrsquo so I went to him and said lsquoSir can I tell you something Please donrsquot make me ride the horse Every day Irsquom haunted by the thought that the horse might take me away againrsquordquoWhen it came to filming the action sequence featuring Bose and General Dyer played by Jason Shah Bhuvan had a rather different idea for how the scene could play outThe actor said ldquoLetrsquos switch it By then I had spoken to Dyer enough to know that he was a kickass horse rider They had given him the bike and given me the horse So I said lsquoSir letrsquos switchrsquo He was such a good horse rider that at times the horse was actually overtaking the bike And then we did it and it was so swiftrdquoThe series is created and directed by Nikkhil Advani and is based on the acclaimed book lsquoRevolutionaries The Other Story Of How India Won Its FreedomrsquoThe show follows 4 freedom fighters Rash Behari Bose Pratibha Lahiri Sachindra Nath Sanyal and Bagha Jatin who locked horns with the British Raj The series is inspired by true events and is set against the backdrop of Indiarsquos freedom struggle It also stars Rohit Saraf Pratibha Ranta Gurfateh Pirzada and Jason ShahThe show tells the story of Indian freedom fighters who believed that armed resistance was not just vital but indispensable to ending the British Raj It was because of the sustained efforts of the aforementioned revolutionaries that the British empire had to shift its capital to Delhi from KolkataProduced by Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani under the banner of Emmay Entertainment the series is written by Sanjeev Sanyal lsquoThe Revolutionariesrsquo is set to drop on September 11 on Prime VideoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever