After Ranveer Singh's back injury, it's John Abraham's broken leg that's playing havoc with a film's shooting.
Sanjay Gupta's Shootout At Wadala, suffering a sequence of unusual hiccups ever since its commencement earlier this month, suffered another setback last week when the film's leading man John Abraham suffered a hairline fracture in his foot during an action sequence.
And now an excessively expensive action sequence to be shot on a crowded street where John needed to run through a gauntlet of pursuers in the middle of BEST buses must be postponed.
The losses, though running into an exorbitant sum, have left the director Sanjay Gupta unperturbed. "It's okay. John goes out of his option to be accommodating. It was a vital action sequence requiring numerous paperwork, permission and prices. But greater than my concern for the lost schedule, its John's condition that bothers me. He shot one action scene during the shooting pain in his leg after it was fractured. He was able to shoot the second one action scene in that condition. However it was out of the question. How could he run through a crowded street with buses, with that leg."
John had undertaken intense preparations for his big action sequence which was to be shot on March 22 and 23.
Informs Gupta, "He needed to run faster than the buses. He was on a fish-only diet. And he was waiting for ending the tasteless diet after finishing the action sequence. The postponement means more fish no-carbohydrate diet for a month more for John."
Unperturbed by the financial losses Gupta says John has already given alternative dates to shoot the postponed action sequence in April. "IN THE INTERIM John isn't sitting idle at home. He'll be doing dialogue reading sessions with Anil Kapoor while his leg heals."
