/> A couple of days after his father's demise, a near-fatal aerial stunt on Thursday at Lonavala involving Rahul Bose , puts a big question mark on the whole issue of safety during the shooting of our films.

The stunt for Samar Khan's Shourya seemed innocuously adventurous to begin with."I had to do bungee jumping for Samar Khan's Shourya. It is my character's introductory scene.

And I had never done bungee jumping in my life. Though I'm very sporty and have done a lot of adventure sports and I didn't mind trying it out.

These bungee were guys from a Bangalore-based company called AWA Stunt Crew. They confidently told me that in 12,000 jumps they've orchestrated so far, nothing has gone wrong."

Confident and exhilarated, Rahul took off. "They took me a hundred feet off the ground by crane. After two practice jumps they took me up in a cage and they told me to be calm and breathe deeply."

Then the camera rolled...and calamity struck.

"I'm facing the camera which is on top of me. Then I fall backwards facing the camera in a swan-like swoop. A second camera had been set up to trace the arch of my fall. I leap off, and one foot down...I'm stuck!

I look down frozen in descent and I see this yawning chasm. Later I got to know I was 499 feet above ground level. Then I hear the guy above me say, 'Oh shit, the harness has got stuck on the camera. Do you want me to let you go or pull you up.

Suspended in mid-air I wonder what letting go means! I thought, 'My family can't have two deaths in one week.' They pull me up.

And I decide I won't try the stunt again, at least not with those Bangalore experts who claim to have done 12,000 smooth bungee jumps. I realized later that those guys were completely freaked out by what happened to me. I declined to do the stunt again nand returned to Mumbai."

It was only later that Rahul realized how dangerous the situation was. "If something had given way, what then? I had signed a disclaimer. And no action would've been taken againt anyone if something had happened to me. It was complete negligence."