Doing sword-fighting stunts myself in Manikarnika: Atul Kulkarni

Hyderabad July 27 (IANS) Actor Atul Kulkarni has been roped in to play Ramchandra Pandurang Tope better know as Tatya Tope in upcoming film "Manikarnika - The Queen of Jhansi". He says he is doing all his sword-fighting stunts himself.

Directed by Krish the film features actress Kangana Ranaut as Rani Laxmibai.

"After Kangana in the title role Atul has the most powerful role in ‘Manikarnika . He has been learning horse-riding and sword-fighting alongside Kangana and since they are both shown to be fighting from the same side in the war the two of them spent a lot of time getting into the combined collaborative mode " a source said.

Atul who earlier played Ramprasad Bismil in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra s "Rang De Basanti" said: "This is something I ve never done before. I am doing all my sword fighting stunts myself. My body-double hired to do the stunts just sits around on the sets doing nothing."

--IANS
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