The most difficult stunt was taming the elephants. When Ashutosh told me about this particular scene, I refused immediately. Elephants are very difficult to tame.

You can do a scene with a tiger and horse using dummies. But you cannot have a dummy for a big animal because it would look funny. And that would mean that we had to use real animals. That was very risky, so I rejected it.

We did not have any reference, as no one had attempted to film a fight like this in the movies. So we had no idea as to how to go about it.

But Ashutosh was adamant. So I had to invent a way to do it. We called an elephant trainer who trained them for months. I should say hats off to Ashutosh that he stuck to his decision. It was very dangerous, risky and difficult but still, we did it. All credit to Hrithik as well, who did the sequence himself without using a dummy.

Hrithik would feed the elephant bananas and jaggery before and after the shoot.

In the scene, the elephant is supposed to be wild and angry, and Hrithik has to tame it and finally, sit on it. It was not difficult to convince Hrithik because he was already convinced by whatever Ashutosh said.

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