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Shooting is almost over but for the climax is yet to be fixed. Director Adarsh has a reputation of making audience go crazy by his wonderful climax scenes. This time it’s a comedy that he’s directing, but the climax involves action and hence is confused to provide a climax with action mixed comedy.

In a hotel room gathered the group of - director, assistant directors, stunt master and his assistants to discuss on the climax of the film. One of Adarsh’s assistants suggests an idea, which stuck to him accidentally on seeing a new car park outside the hotel. Everyone listens to him as he speaks…“Climax will have a car chase. Villain tries to escape from hero and gets on to a new car parked outside the temple for Puja, with a rose garland in its front portion. He steals it and the car chase begins, to end up in an accident. Villain is thrown out of the car through the front mirror along with the garland on the front of the car. Villain falls to the ground and the garland falls over his neck symbolically telling the viewers of his death”.

Adarsh was pretty much ok with this and stunt master had asked Dharan, one of his best assistants around to do the stunts. It was all set to shoot the climax; Dharan was the dupe for the villain and was in the new ambassador. Everything went well until, Dharan fell out of the car dashing the mirror as fate would have it he landed on his spinal cord to suffer a fatal damage and was taken to the hospital to be declared dead.

A month after the movie got released. Everyone was happy about the outcome of the movie. Adarsh overheard two friends coming out of the movie discussing about it: Man, Adarsh is too good in setting the climax, though it’s a death of person, by making the garland fall over him, he made it so comical that everyone laughed at it instead of worrying about the death.The other - Hey who’s dead, the villain is not dead man, its all cinema. It’s Reel not Real.

Adarsh couldn’t console himself as that scene really cost a life and everyone is laughing at it (as expected) but for Dharan’s family.