Health and safety risk assessments

[Red Devil]

Derek Smith said:

Mind you, sometimes I have to say others haven't thought it out too well:2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYN9qNXmAw

It is remarkable. I kept thinking that it was somehow down to cgi, but it looks real to me. I wonder what the disparity was between the number who got on to those who alighted. How many are injured in such setups?

Inside Man for those wondering where it comes from.

The moment I saw the train @0:42 I knew where the video had been shot.
The engine and the viaduct confirm it is the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Tamil Nadu.

You have got it back to front re Inside Man though. That's a 2006 American film directed by Spike Lee.
Chaiyya Chaiyya comes from a much earlier (1998) Indian film Dil Se.
That's the footage and soundtrack in your link - http://www.filmapia.com/films/movies/scenes/chaiyy...

Inside Man used remixes of the song in the opening and closing credits.
The opening features an abridged version of the original with additional trumpet accompaniment.
The closing features a hip-hop-inflected version featuring Panjabi MC.

ging84 said:

It's clearly a huge amount of green screen, with a few bit of real footage mixed in.

You're completely wrong. What you see is 100% real.

Malaika Arora said:

"Would you believe it? Well, the 'Chaiya Chaiya' song was shot exactly as you see it on the screen: No camera tricks, no back projection, no post-production special effects! One of the unit members tripped and hurt himself. Other than that, things were safe."

I hope you're not suggesting the lady who starred in it is lying.

[singlecoil]

Well she's clearly miming, so isn't too bothered about realism.

[ging84]

maybe clearly green screen was a bit strong, but a lot of the shots could have easily been done on green screen in a way that could be virtual indistinguishable from live shots, without the slightest amount of cgi.
My assumption was that they were, especially since viewing a crappy digitally streamed video has a tendency to make everything look a bit flat and artificial.

[Derek Smith]

Red Devil said:

Derek Smith said:

Mind you, sometimes I have to say others haven't thought it out too well:2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYN9qNXmAw

It is remarkable. I kept thinking that it was somehow down to cgi, but it looks real to me. I wonder what the disparity was between the number who got on to those who alighted. How many are injured in such setups?

Inside Man for those wondering where it comes from.

The moment I saw the train @0:42 I knew where the video had been shot.
The engine and the viaduct confirm it is the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Tamil Nadu.

You have got it back to front re Inside Man though. That's a 2006 American film directed by Spike Lee.
Chaiyya Chaiyya comes from a much earlier (1998) Indian film Dil Se.
That's the footage and soundtrack in your link - http://www.filmapia.com/films/movies/scenes/chaiyy...

Inside Man used remixes of the song in the opening and closing credits.
The opening features an abridged version of the original with additional trumpet accompaniment.
The closing features a hip-hop-inflected version featuring Panjabi MC.

ging84 said:

It's clearly a huge amount of green screen, with a few bit of real footage mixed in.

You're completely wrong. What you see is 100% real.

Malaika Arora said:

"Would you believe it? Well, the 'Chaiya Chaiya' song was shot exactly as you see it on the screen: No camera tricks, no back projection, no post-production special effects! One of the unit members tripped and hurt himself. Other than that, things were safe."

I hope you're not suggesting the lady who starred in it is lying.

Thanks for all that information. I didn't mean to suggest that the origin of the song was Inside Man, merely that it was probably the most likely place that PHers heard it.

I was watching the video when my wife saw it. She was entranced and we've been watching a number of YouTube Bollywood excerpts. There's a lot of energy in them. Well over two hours went by with both of us mesmerised.

When we were looking at Chaiya Chaiya together I said that I couldn't believe it was filmed live but a little bit of research showed, as you say, no tricks in filming, nor any in post production. Hence the thread.

Thanks again.