Mumbai: Sitting in Goregaon’s warehouse stacked with explosives, rocket launchers, AK47 and black import gun, Vishal Tyagi got a call.
“Do you have a sniper rifle?” A sound is heard on the speakerphone.
“Snipers? Send me ‘hi’ on WhatsApp.
I will send your picture,” Vishal said.
Son of dacoit-turn-tv-actor-turn-bollywood-prop-gun-gun-gun-supplier Mahendra Tyagi, who died in Fire Studio 1989 in MySuru, Vishal is part of a brave fellowship called the Association of Dummy Action Film Action (MADEA) The 650 odd members supply police-certified police weapons for film and TV shooting in India.
Checked under the latest Hollywood shooting accident in the spotlight where the gun issued by actor Alec Baldwin killed cinematografer Halyna Hutchins, the work of the Dummy weapon supplier appeared significantly and underestimated.
Unlike the 70s when the Western inspired Desi film uses real weapons borrowed from people like Vishal’s fugitive father, all realistic weapons are now transported by actors, insisting Vishal.
“We only use Dummy weapons that have a police certificate.
Bullets do not contain leads.
They can only cause sound and flash pull the trigger,” Vishal said.
SFX supplier Rue’s delay in the Hollywood weapons dummy certification has a long and tragic history of fatal shooting accidents from 1915, the last incident reported in India in the 1990s when an actor Gujarati died after pulling his forehead trigger.
“They might use an empty gun made in a village,” Guess Vishal, who is no stranger to the Indian film industry in a hurry, “alsoad”.
“Proof of idiot” is how Abhijeet Singh from IndianForguns, a forum for online weapons, likes to describe the design of the prop.
“This weapon has a solid steel rod in a functional barrel In such a device, it is impossible that it can push the projectile because the stem is not hollow, “someone said” was never stupid to try something like this, it would only destroy the empty gun and the possibility of causing serious injury users! “Often mistaken for the department’s sound effects by The industry they served, Dummy Gun suppliers, who also reversed cars, hit trucks and explosion cylinders on the signal, got their own unity in 1993 when the ISHILE firearm supplier like Nirmal Singh and Attar Singh.
Rules for health insurance and compensation for death after the accident set.
Per-shift wages prescribed for each worker who had to accompany the gun in the set was Rs 2,627 although many could bid more questions by the police about the discovery of Dummy ammunition three-story warehouses in Goregaon having guards on each floor.
However, the certificate has become a little difficult to obtain.
Since the rules of the weapons, 2016, brought PR previously ungotoniates of OP weapons under the ambit weapons license, “We must ask permission to import from customs officers and the general foreign trade department.
This has caused a delay”, Vishal said, who has been waiting for a set Import weapons for certified since November 2020.
“Then, there are heavy customs duties.
At this level, how do we hope to improve itself with international standards?” Asked a 45-year-old player who was injured by the lack of technical awards for special effects suppliers.
However, the splash of hope is small, it has come recently in the form of VFX and raises awareness.
Even before the incident Baldwin, Vishal noted how a film crew began to insist on filling things like a flash muzzle with CGI.
If an Indian crew The OTT platform allows Vishal to test the fins of the car before the recent shots, other OTT giants flooded him with questions about “health and safety”.
“Especially because we take pictures in an intimate and controlled environment in Covid Times, there are greater concerns about safety,” Vishal said.
Then, he entered his car and put the caller again on the speakerphone: “Sir, do you have a suicide bombing reference?”