/> One minute this way or that way it could've proved fatal for the young talented Neil Nitin Mukesh.

"Fortunately I had the presence of mind to move out of the way just in time before calamity stuck," shudders Neil at the thought of the near-disaster that stuck him last week when he wasn't looking while shooting a dangerous stunt on the roads of Andheri with action director Shyam Kaushal for Jehangir Surti's Freeze.

Neil plays a photographer on a mission.

Recalling the incident in some detail Neil says, "It was a carefully planned chase sequence on a highway. I was in an autorickshaw and I was being chased by a skidding car. It was supposed to swerve to the right while my auto was supposed to go the other way. Instead both the vehicles turned in the same direction."

To the shock of the entire crew the speeding car hit Neil's autorickshaw. "If I didn't have the quick reflexes and presence of mind to jump out just in time anything could've happened," Neil shudders.

The incident recalls what transpired in Nasik three years ago during the shooting of Raj Kumar Santoshi's Khakee when a car lost balance and stuck Aishwarya.

Says Neil, "These things happen. Not because of careless planning. No amount of calculation and planning can immune you against a miscalculation during a stunt. I'm game for it. Because I've lots of stunts in Freeze and also in Kabir Khan's film for Yashraj films. But after what happened last week I intend to take precautions."

Neil has decided to provide walkie-talkies and uniforms for all his staff. "That's to make them more easily identifiable and accessible when I'm shooting.

That day when I was hit I looked around for my own staff in the chaos. I couldn't find a single person although they were all right there in the crowd. I confess I panicked more because I felt isolated at the time of the crisis."

Neil's faithful staff will now be easily accessible to him. "I'll carry a walkietalkie at all times. Making my staff walkie-savvy and putting them in a uniform is not a form of selfglorification for me.

It's a way of joining hands with my own people in a crowd. We all wore a uniform in school for no other reason except that feeling of oneness.

These are people who have been with my family for years and treat me like a son. Our driver insists on driving me home and then going home to the other end of the town no matter what time it is."