Ajay Devgan's close brush with death

Ajay Devgan's close brush with death
(NSI News Source Info) September 27, 2008 - New Delhi: Bollywood star Ajay Devgan had a close brush with death while shooting an action sequence for a film near an island in Thailand.The scene required him and four other stunt men to play out a jet-ski chase in the sea.This was being shot by a camera on the chopper to get an aereal view of the chase.While Devgan and his men were jet-skiing, the weather suddenly turned stormy and the chopper moving over them nearly lost control. Everyone escaped unscathed, despite the helicopter blades whizzing inches away from them.Writing in the 'notebook' on his website, Devgan describes the incident as a 'scenario gone awfully wrong'. "Initially, as we started filming and moving around in the shallow waters, the waves were moderate... so we decided to move ahead in the deeper waters since the scene required a proper aerial view which should look like a chase from a top angle," Ajay wrote on the website."They(stunt men) were moving aggressively in the sea trying to give their best shots by manoeuvring with their cuts around me The chopper was also hovering right above us and as close as possible to us to get better shots," he added.According to Ajay, all seemed to go well until they realised they were nearing another smaller rocky island called Maya Bay."Suddenly the weather started to change. The wind and the waves were trying to show us their stunts and our guys instantly thought of retreat."A sudden gust of strong wind hit me and next moment the chopper above us lost control and blades were so dangerously close to us that we could feel the strong whipping winds of our helicopter," he described.Devgan, known for doing his own stunts says this incident will be etched in his mind for a long time.