Karkala: Crew member saved by film director’s presence of mind

Bellevision Media Network

Karkala, 13 Oct 2014: A film crew member who was trapped in a house during the shooting of a Kannada film ‘Rikki’ was miraculously rescued due to the presence of mind of the director Rishabh Shetty.

 

The rescued person is Basava alias Sharan.

 

The shooting for the directorial venture of Shetty starring renowned Director Rakshith Shetty was going on at a place called Govindur here.

 

The scene was that of a house crumbling down and the crew was all set to pull down the temporarily built house using a bulldozer.

 

 

 

However, the 22-year-old worker who had to throw some utensils out of the house for the shot, remained inside the house, unaware of the fact that the bulldozer had started to pull down the house.

 

When the director was seeing the scene through his monitor, he sensed that someone was inside the house. He instantly stopped the shoot by passing directions to the entire crew and rushed to the house, which was already crumbling.

 

On reaching to the house, the director found Sharan trapped inside the house, was praying for life.

 

With presence of mind of Rishabh Shetty, Sharan had a miraculous escape.