She is a superstar behind the scenes and you may know her from these action packed performances. Sanober Pardiwalla
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00:00Name films that you've watched across a span of 20 years, and if it's an action film, I've 100% done it.
00:18Hi, my name is Sonobo Pardiwala. I perform stunts in Bollywood. I'm a stuntwoman.
00:23There was this movie, Ravan, where I had performed. I think that is one of my best jumps of jumping off cliffs because it involved a mountain which had a belly.
00:33From here, if you had to jump off, you had to really take a bigger leap so that you don't crash on the belly of the mountain.
00:42It took two days for our team to only take our equipment up the mountain.
00:53I started performing stunts from the age of 12. That's exactly one day when I was called in for an audition to perform flips.
01:05And from that day onwards, there was no looking back because this is something that I could do with ease.
01:11And I realized that why not convert my passion into my profession?
01:1520 years or 15 years back, there was a lot of male-dominant ego, is what I would also say.
01:25Because they wouldn't want to hear from a female coming, teaching them probably simple physics or telling them, hey, look, we can alter it.
01:35So the initial harnesses, you wouldn't even want to bear them. You'd want to say a secret prayer, God, I know my body, I know my reflexes, I know everything.
01:45But now if this harness snaps, it's not me. I cannot control it.
01:49So there is a huge change in products also in terms of quality, in terms of availability and safety.
01:56I still don't understand why in Bollywood, people haven't come to acceptance of their stunt artists.
02:07You see their counterparts in Hollywood and they're so open and in fact, you know, they take them to their functions and award shows and stuff like that.
02:16Get some training. Get some real good training.
02:29And once you've got your training, and once you start performing stunts, I would still personally suggest every woman in this field to have a parallel profession.
02:38I have seen lives ending in performing stunts.
02:41And forget about lives ending. I've seen them being paralyzed for the rest of their lives. They are alive, but in a vegetative state.
02:47Let's say your cable snaps while you're jumping from a 50 feet story and let's say you damage your back.
02:53What do you do then for the rest of your life? Who do you look at if you have to, you know, survive for your bread and butter?