Bollywood’s renowned filmmaker Kabir Khan, who is basking in the success of his latest release Chandu Champion, has shared his opinion on making action movies. The director has showcased an eight-minute-long war sequence in the movie. Kabir shared that the sake of doing action scenes does not work, it looks like an item number. He also shared the challenges he faced while shooting the much-talked-about scene in the film. 

In an interview with PTI,  Kabir Khan said “I have always believed and have done that even in my earlier action films that action for the sake of action never really works, then it's an item number. Action works when the emotional drama and arc of the story moves forward with the action. The start of the action and the end of the action has to move and that in this film is huge. It's one of the most pivotal points in the plot.”

Speaking about the much talked about action sequence in Chandu Champion, Kabir added “We are so used to doing things in films that if it's not happening, take two or take three or take four, and we can keep achieving. Here, we had no take two. It was only one take and we had to get it correct because a lot of big structures were going to crumble and fall and you cannot set it up all over again. On top of that, we were shooting on location in Kashmir at a very high altitude. Carrying people and equipment up there and training them for several days before attempting the single take was quite a task.”

Notably, the scene was shot at 9,000 feet above sea level in Aru Valley in  Kashmir. 

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Chandu Champion stars Kartik Aaryan, Vijay Raaz, Bhagyashree Patwardhan, Rajpal Yadav, Manoj Anand, Adonis Kapsalis, and Stuart Whelan in significant roles. The sports action drama has been jointly produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and Kabir Khan.