‘Imran Khan had 3,000 girls waiting for him’: Vir Das recalls Delhi Belly shoot, the moment where he almost hung himself

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They finally moved to the apartment scene, and director Deo revealed something quite interesting and potentially dangerous about shooting that particular sequence. They pause at the frame where Vir can be seen hung from the ceiling with a tie, as he tries to keep his balance on a long-legged stool. Deo said that this scene could have been very problematic for Vir, as during the initial few shots, he wasn’t wearing any harness. “So I pointed this out, that during the first scenes you aren’t wearing a harness. If you had lost your balance or Vijay had somehow hit the stool, well, that would have been quite a problem,” to which Vir said, “Well, I would have hung myself, and then all of you could have just said sorry.” The three men proceed to laugh it off as Verma revealed that the film was slowly getting out of their hand financially.

“I just remember that we weren’t finding a nice room for the hotel sequence, and then suddenly Aamir was like, No problem, we’ll just construct it. Then later when we weren’t able to find an apartment, Aamir said that we’ll construct that too. I just asked, ‘Aren’t our expenses increasing by too much? Where is the budget for all this? Aamir just looked at me confused, and from his expressions I could tell that he was thinking, ‘Who is this poor man on my set?'”