Getting shot can be injurious to health. If it takes courage for Bollywood actresses to strip on screen, it takes much more grit to negotiate the minefield of dangers on film sets.
Sultry seductress Sameera Reddy for example turned on the heat a little too strongly while shooting for Musafir in Goa recently. Sameera was in her shorts and top for the Door se Paas song and the scene required her to rotate kerosene-drenched fireballs on a rope around her body. But setting her pants on fire certainly wasn't there in the script.
"There were real flames in the background and I was dancing in front. I did not even realise when my lower garments caught fire and it required quick thinking from action director Tinu Verma to rescue me before something terrible happened. The anti-fire gel had been applied only to my exposed skin - the clothes I was wearing were not protected. Although the mishap left me with minor injuries and quite badly shaken, I refused to back-out. After I recovered, the director asked me if I wanted to continue. I said yes and we completed the shoot. At hindsight I realise the situation was risky but then life is all about taking risks," she gushes.