Pratik Gandhi is one of the most dedicated contemporary actors goes without saying. The risks he took to portray a dedicated firefighter in Rahul Dholakia's Agni, now streaming on Amazon, shows his impressive commitment to the role. Excerpts from the interview Agni entailed a lot of playing with fire.
How was the actors' safety ensured? Did you feel the heat? How much preparation went into the part? As we all know fire is a physically demanding job. It requires a lot of physical in terms of strength and stamina, but also in terms of technical knowledge of the equipment that you have to handle every time you get into any disaster, to rescue people firefighters are a community that not only are first responders during fire hazards, but also during floods and earthquakes or anything of these sorts They are generally a disaster management largely and when you have to create these kind of characters. A lot of prep is required.
Had been prepping with them for almost four weeks. ALSO READ: Divyenndu On Latest Film Agni: Representing Firefighters Was One Of The Main Reasons To Be Part Of This - EXCL What kind of preparation? We went to different fire stations and trained with them in terms of all these equipment, technical training of these equipment and also physical strength and stamina that is required to carry a person on your shoulder and then climb down from the second floor to the ground floor, so the rescue operations that we have shown in the film carrying somebody and then .
