Puneet Issar, who played Duryodhana in the 1988 ‘Mahabharata’, has seen a lot of ups and downs in his career. While doing a scene with Amitabh Bachchan in the film ‘Coolie’, Puneet Issar was punched right, after which the emperor was injured. It is said that Amitabh’s life was left in this incident. This incident threatened Puneet’s career. This was a big turning point in his career, which has been talking about decades. Once again, he discussed it.
How was Amitabh Bachchan hurt?
During a conversation with Siddharth Kannan, Puneet Issar recalled those black days and said, ‘This was just an accident. You will not agree that the film I got … Yash Johar Sir was my friend of my father. Yash Johar knew Manmohan Desai well. Manmohan ji wanted a voice of some marsel arts. So Yash ji used to come home and he used to see me. Then I used to do 7-7 hours of marsel arts. He knew that Sudesh ji’s boy does marshal arts. So Yash ji told Manmohan ji that Puneet Issar is a boy, he does marsel arts, he will give what you want. Yash ji took me to Manmohan ji’s house. Ketan (Desai) was also there. He asked me what you can do, I said I can do it. He said- show it. I showed it, making a voice and everything else. He said- it is amazing. In the same way, I dubbed in the film Naseeb for him. Manmohan ji asked me- will it work? I said that Sir, I want work. He said that Dun, I will take you in the porter. And the first day, the first shot with Mr. Bachchan and then it happened.
Talking about the accident, Puneet Issar said, ‘We were doing an action scene, in which we had to die for each other. There was a camera angle where I had to pick them up and hit them on a board and then pick them up and throw them on the table. In the rehearsal, we had a profile angle, Peter Prera ​​Sir said that Puneet is killing in what he is killing. So Amit ji said that Puneet, you must touch it, I will survive. So what happened that when I hit him on the board, he hit it and came forward. The timing got somewhat wrong, he came 6 inches ahead. My hand that was found to them. This was just an accident. What happened after that is recorded in history.
Amitabh narrated the story to Puneet
The actor further said, ‘The doctors were negligent, they could not understand what has happened. They did not understand that the intestine report has taken place. By then the condition had worsened, he had liked it. But Mr. Bachchan’s greatness is that … a lot had come in the papers and I was upset that what is this man. It is a matter of 1981. I used to wonder what will happen, what will not happen. When he knew, Mr. Bachchan called me that I had to meet Puneet. I went to meet them. I saw them in that condition and tears came in my eyes that this has happened because of me. He told me that Puneet is not your fault. When we do action, it happens. At that stage, he told me an anecdote that I and Vinod Khanna were shooting for a film. I did not remember that blood sweat or Hera Pheri. Amit ji said that I had to hit a glass on Vinod Khanna’s mouth. We did 10 rehearsals, recovered. Do not know what happened in the tech, went to the glass and hit Vinod Khanna’s chin and that part was completely torn. He has got 7-8 stitches. Then I felt the same as you feel now. So please relax. So in that condition, he (Amitabh) got up, he put his hand around my neck and in the area of ​​Breach Candy (Hospital) where the press people used to sit, he deliberately came to leave me there. So that people do not feel that I have some hatred or something for Puneet in my mind. This was the greatness of Bachchan Saheb.
Puneet had money to kill?
In those days, there was news that Amitabh Bachchan would also be killed after this accident. In those days the audience considered Amitabh as God. People named Puneet Issar to the name Murder. Puneet told, ‘Somebody had said that he has killed with money. Any opposition star has given money. People used to give anything in the paper. One had written that Puneet Issar has claimed that he can run faster than a moving train. Anything, long-lumbered (started throwing). Phone calls used to come to people’s house that we will not leave you. Will kill All this was difficult for me, but I had my family with me. My parents, my wife was standing with me. Brother, I did not do anything deliberately. There was an accident, done, now go ahead, man.