When Aamir Khan missed being hit by a train by 1.2 seconds during Ghulam stunt: ‘I shouldn’t have done it’

Aamir elaborated that the scene was shot from three angles. “Two of those were generated in special effects. But one angle which was my frontal angle, we shot that with the train. At that time, I didn’t realise it but when I later watched it in the editing room then I got scared,” he recalled. Aamir said that when they timed it on the edit table, they realised that the “train missed me by 1.2 seconds.” The actor said that he did three takes of that scene.

The producer of the film, Mukesh Bhatt, in an interview, said that Aamir did the scene himself. “I was very tensed that day because if he was late by one second, he would have been crushed by the train. He is a very sincere actor and works harder than required,” he shared in a chat shared by Wild Films India’s YouTube channel. Mukesh recalled, “During the shoot, Aamir got so invested that he forgot that his life is at stake. It is God’s grace that he got saved otherwise Aamir would be dead today.”

Ghulam also starred Rani Mukerji and Sharat Saxena and was directed by Vikram Bhatt.