Neil Nitin Mukesh may have started off with an action avatar in his debut film Johnny Gaddar. But his recent releases have seen him play softer, romantic roles. With Players however, Neil is going back to action thrillers, and has performed quite a few stunts.
But in the course of reverting to true-blue macho type, Neil injured himself, not once, not twice — but all of four times, and in the most macho of all places to boot: His pinky finger. “I did fracture my pinky finger,” Neil admits. “But it’s all par for the course — a person can fall down and get injured while walking on the street.”
But Neil did get to do things that were a lot more interesting than walking down the street. “Pulling off a train heist in the middle of so much snow, in Murmansk, Russia, was quite a highlight,” Neil says.