Ishaan’s stunt wows action director
Ishaan Khatter’s passion for acting drives him to go the extra mile to add life to his characters. While he shed weight for Majid Majidi’s Beyond The Clouds (2017), his high diving for Shashank Khaitan’s Dhadak (2018) got everyone talking. For his next, Maqbool Khan’s Khaali Peeli, the actor will be seen performing some risky stunts.
According to action director Parvez Shaikh, Ishaan did all the stunts himself, without any cables or harness. “Ishaan expressed the wish to do the stunts himself, and I agreed. Yeh bahut actors bolte hain aur koshish bhi karte hain par baad mein phir zaroorat pade toh cable ya body-double use kar lete hain, kyunki there’s a lot of risk. But Ishaan delivered as promised,” says Parvez, who further reveals that the actor shot for the action sequences in the climax within five days.
Ishaan essays the role of a cab driver in the film, and Parvez feels that he has the capability of being a “good action hero”, and says, “The moment he gets a good script he would deliver.”
Parvez also shares some high-octane moments. The action director says, “We were shooting for a chase sequence on a bridge, and Ishaan had to drive his taxi, stop at a point, come out and do a fight scene. Even though a taxi doesn’t match the speed and technology of latest cars, Ishaan did it perfectly.”