Rohit Shetty began his Bollywood career as an assistant director and stunt performer
MUMBAI: Bollywood filmmaker Rohit Shetty began his career as an assistant director and stunt performer. A few years ago, he even revealed that for one film in the 90s, Rohit was Akshay Kumar’s body double.
Rohit made this revelation on an episode of the fifth season of the reality show Great Indian Laughter Challenge back in 2017. There, Akshay joked that when Rohit first met him as an assistant director on the sets of the 1994 film Suhaag, he used to call him sir. At this, Rohit blushed and said, “During Suhaag, I was actually his body double. I even learnt his walk for it.”
The show was judged by Akshay Kumar, along with Sajid Khan and Shreyas Talpade. Rohit appeared with the cast of his film Golmaal Again – Ajay Devgn, Parineeti Chopra, Tabu, Arshad Warsi, and Tushhar Kapoor – on the show in October 2017.
Then, on Akshay’s insistence, Rohit copied Akshay’s walk on the show’s stage. Rohit eventually directed Akshay in his 2021 film Sooryavanshi, which was among the highest-grossing films of the year.
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Suhaag, directed by Kuku Kohli, also starred Ajay Devgn, Karisma Kapoor, and Nagma. It was a hit at the box office and one of the highest-grossing films that year. Rohit worked as an assistant or second unit director in four other films before making his directorial debut with Zameen in 2003.
Rohit is coming up with his next project ‘Cirkus’ featuring Ranveer Singh, Jacqueline Fernandez and Pooja Hegde.
Credit: Hindustan Times