From a small birthday party, to a baby shower, a festival or a wedding, Rajan Shahi’s shows celebrate every occasion be it big or small. The audience is always in awe of such sequences because who doesn’t love a lot naach-gana with some stunning outfits. The ace producer brings the audience’s dreams of such events into a reality. Actor Kinshuk Vaidya, who is currently seen as Nakul Chaudhary in “Woh Toh Hai Albelaa”, feels they are the USP of Rajan’s show and said, “I think sir makes movie like sequences on television with all those beautiful dance scenes, songs and grand celebration.”
He added, “That is what life is all about, about celebrations and he tries to depict it so well on-screen through his shows. I think he excels in portraying the larger-than-life picture on-screen. He likes to make those lavish, grand sequences. That’s why I always say he is a visionary, and he likes bringing all his thoughts to life.”
Kinshuk’s opening scene, which was shot in Hyderabad, in the show included a dance sequence where he along with Shaheer Sheikh and Anuj Sachdeva shook a leg on “Dhating naach”. He was later seen dancing to “Kukkad” with Shaheer in another sequence. Talking about his love for dance, he said, “I am a trained dancer. I trained under Shiamak Davar for a good five-six years as a kid and all that training is paying off now. But I feel the entire credit goes to Himanshu (Gadani), because even if you are not a trained dancer, he choreographs the sequences in a way that the result is always wonderful. It was quite fun and the steps were quite good and interesting.”
That’s not it, his introduction scene included him jumping from a 60-70 feet tall minar. He revealed that he always performs his own stunts and said, “Even as a kid in ‘Raju Chacha’ or ‘Shaka Laka Boom Boom’ I have done stunts on my own using a harness. But even though I have done it so many times, standing on top of that minar, I could see a 6’3″ Shaheer look so small and I was scared for a moment, but when I finally did it and the result was so good, it was a happy feeling. So no matter how many times you have performed the stunts on your own, you always get nervous while performing a new one.”
“For this particular scene, I was just hanging by a rope, and it was an exhilarating experience,” he added.
However, Kinshuk confessed that doing stunts on your own can be scary. “Doing stunts can make you nervous, it sends a chill down your spine and during the introduction sequence all I could think was ‘people are looking so small from up here, what should I do?’ I was thinking what will happen once I jump but then I just closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and jumped. It went well. We did a couple of trials before doing the final shot and I was very comfortable doing it,” he said.
Asked if he feels TV avoids a lot of stunts, he agreed and said it’s because they are very time consuming. He added, “You need to be very cautious and there are so many precautions that need to be taken care of and normally in television we don’t have so much time to give to one particular scene. Also, it becomes expensive and things can go out of budget. Like for the introduction scene in the show, three cranes were brought on the set and then the gears and everything, all these costs a lot. So I think that’s why there are not many stunt sequences on TV but whenever it happens it’s always good.”
Kinshuk further said, “That is why when you have an action film made people call it big-budget because you need to invest a lot of time and money in getting one particular stunt done with perfection.”
