Amitabh Bachchan suffers from strained neck
Mumbai
Mar 20, 2017
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was spotted wearing a neck brace,
and he says it's due to a strained neck caused by stunts he did in his younger
days.
The 74-year-old thespian was photographed wearing a neck brace
while he attended his daughter-in-law and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's father's
funeral here on March 18.
'Many have, yes, seen the picture with the neck brace
and have expressed either exclamation or remedy, or surprise... It's factual
and it's on my neck, because the neck is strained. These are recurrences of
old action and stunt injuries right from the time of 'Don' and several other
films that came after that have involved my physical movements for action deeds
going horribly wrong,' Amitabh wrote on his blog.
'The cervical has undergone so many damage inflicting
stunts that several vertebrae are damaged, out of position, infected with trauma,
and several other complicated medical terminology which I just cannot understand...
Resulting in any act or movement or subjection to an awkward resting position,
those vertebrae move about again out of position, making it impossible for me
to sit stand sleep rest in any position whatsoever,' he added.
Amitabh said there were no safety devices during their times.
'It was raw it was real and it was injury-centric. We
jumped from heights without protection, without soft landing gear, without harnesses
that most actors deploy now and without face replacement,' he added.
The 'Piku' star calls face replacement a 'wonderful
technological invention'.
'Where a double or a duplicate can make the 1960s jump
and his face is replaced by the main artist's... So, on screen it looks as if
the hero did it... Difficult bike sequences, which involve dangerous riding
skills are never with the leading man... They are done with duplicates and the
face replaced with that of the leading man,' he added.
Amitabh says special effects and VFX has made an actor's life
and work easy.
'VFX is expensive stuff. Replication of every action of
the actor can be pre captured and through replacement made to look real... You
need never go to Mt Everest, but you could be put there on top,' he said.
Mumbai
Mar 20, 2017
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was spotted wearing a neck brace,
and he says it's due to a strained neck caused by stunts he did in his younger
days.
The 74-year-old thespian was photographed wearing a neck brace
while he attended his daughter-in-law and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's father's
funeral here on March 18.
'Many have, yes, seen the picture with the neck brace
and have expressed either exclamation or remedy, or surprise... It's factual
and it's on my neck, because the neck is strained. These are recurrences of
old action and stunt injuries right from the time of 'Don' and several other
films that came after that have involved my physical movements for action deeds
going horribly wrong,' Amitabh wrote on his blog.
'The cervical has undergone so many damage inflicting
stunts that several vertebrae are damaged, out of position, infected with trauma,
and several other complicated medical terminology which I just cannot understand...
Resulting in any act or movement or subjection to an awkward resting position,
those vertebrae move about again out of position, making it impossible for me
to sit stand sleep rest in any position whatsoever,' he added.
Amitabh said there were no safety devices during their times.
'It was raw it was real and it was injury-centric. We
jumped from heights without protection, without soft landing gear, without harnesses
that most actors deploy now and without face replacement,' he added.
The 'Piku' star calls face replacement a 'wonderful
technological invention'.
'Where a double or a duplicate can make the 1960s jump
and his face is replaced by the main artist's... So, on screen it looks as if
the hero did it... Difficult bike sequences, which involve dangerous riding
skills are never with the leading man... They are done with duplicates and the
face replaced with that of the leading man,' he added.
Amitabh says special effects and VFX has made an actor's life
and work easy.
'VFX is expensive stuff. Replication of every action of
the actor can be pre captured and through replacement made to look real... You
need never go to Mt Everest, but you could be put there on top,' he said.
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