Saif
Ali
Khan
is
being
rigorously
trained
in
the
most
complex
martial
arts
for
his
role
as
a
spy
in
Sriram
Raghavan"s
Agent
Vinod.
Saif"s
latest
acquisition
to
amplify
the
scope
of
his
action
scenes
will
make
our
other
action
stars
go
green
with
envy.
It
would
certainly
disappoint
Vivek
Oberoi
to
know
that
Saif
has
beaten
him
into
getting
the
Prince
of
Persia
action
director
Cedric
Proust
to
do
the
stunts
in
Agent
Vinod.
Vivek"s
producers
planned
to
bring
Proust
for
the
sequel
to
Prince.
Confirming
this
development
Agent
Vinod
director
Sriram
Raghavan
says,
“Yes,
Cedric
Proust
who
has
done
many
big
Hollywood
action
films
did
Saif"s
action
scenes
in
Morocco
and
Afghanistan.
We
plan
to
hire
another
leading
action
director
for
Saif"s
action
scenes
in
England
and
an
Indian
one
for
the
stunts
in
Delhi.
In
this
way
we
hope
to
economize
on
the
budget
for
action
scenes
without
compromising
on
the
quality
of
the
action".
Raghavan
says
too
much
money
is
wasted
in
Hindi
films
by
unnecessarily
blowing
up
cars
and
filming
chase
sequences.
Says
the
director,
“Let"s
face
it.
We
don"t
have
the
budgets
afforded
to
action
scenes
in
the
James
Bond
and
Bourne
films.
But
we
can
economize
on
the
budget
and
still
give
the
same
caliber
of
stunts.
For
instance,
instead
of
a
9-minute
car
chase
we
can
shoot
for
the
chase
for
just
4
minutes
with
the
same
impact".
Stunts,
says
Raghavan,
are
grossly
misused
in
our
films.
“We
often
splurge
unnecessarily
on
action
scenes.
For
example,
why
do
we
need
to
go
abroad
to
shoot
action
scenes
when
we
have
the
location
and
infrastructure
right
here?
In
my
Johnny
Gaddar
we
needed
to
shoot
an
action
sequence
in
a
train.
We
thought
of
going
abroad.
Then
we
settled
for
India".
Sriram
wonders
why
recent
Bollywood"s
action
sequences
are
not
spoken
about
when
so
much
money
is
spent
on
them.
“When
we
mention
action
why
do
we
talk
only
about
the
train-robbery
sequence
in
Sholay
and
the
godown
fight
in
Deewaar?
We
need
to
stop
treating
fight
sequences
with
the
flamboyance
of
item
songs".
In
Agent
Vinod
Saif
will
be
doing
the
most
rugged
and
realistic
action.
Explains
Raghavan,
“Saif
plays
a
spy.
His
character
needs
to
be
trained
for
all
kinds
of
crises.
I
want
Saif
to
fight
instinctively,
not
as
though
his
moves
have
been
pre-decided.
There
will
be
a
lot
of
the
raw
guttural
bloody
stuff".