“Many stuntmen and occasionally actors die on film sets every year... This is so wrong ... in Indian films action protocols prep and execution is even more primitive ...” says Kangana!
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut who have often found caught up in many controversies given her unfiltered statements. She took to Instagram and expressed her shock over the accidental killing of film’s cinematographer and injuring the director with a prop gun. She shared a post on her Instagram story about the same.
“This is so horrible!! Note for all the people working in films, dealing with various stunts, weapons and explosives… your mistakes can cause someone their life… tragic.” She wrote a note as well on her Instagram stories. It read “Today two people were shot on a film set one of them died immediately... like other leading actors, I too have had many accidents while filming stunts ... some of them were near death experiences and mostly it was someone else's carelessness ... many stuntmen and occasionally actors die on film sets every year... This is so wrong ... in Indian films action protocols prep and execution is even more primitive ... Hope our film bodies look in to it and prevent such mishaps…”
In 2017, on the sets of Manikarnika, Kangana Ranaut sustained an injury. Once while shooting a sword fight sequence with co-star Nihar Pandya and then injured herself again on the set of the same film. She fractured her right leg and was taken to Apollo hospital in Hyderabad.
Alec Baldwin took to twitter and described the killing as a “tragic accident”. As per the court records released on Friday reveals that an assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer on the sets of Rust. Turns out that the gun was loaded with live rounds, and when Baldwin pulled the trigger he killed cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza, who was standing behind her, was wounded as well.
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