Rithvik Risks His Life for a Daredevil Aerial Trapeze Act

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Chandigarh 13^th October:- TV heart-throb Rithvik Dhanjani has managed to pull off a feat that no other actor on Indian television has. The Pavitra Rishta star who will soon be seen as a celebrity contestant on ZEE TV's  upcoming non-fiction show 'I Can Do That' has aced an aerial trapeze act like a pro in less than 5 days and left his co-contestants, host Farhan Akhtar and the audience stunned and overwhelmed. To promote the serial Rithvik Dhanjani was in Chandigarh today.

As Rithvik chose this act, Farhan told him that in choosing this act, you're playing with death. He got merely 5 days to prepare an act that takes any professional over 3 years of practice to get right. Today, he can safely be called a master in performing trapeze acts. Rithvik said that this is clearly the toughest thing that He has considered doing in his life. He got injured multiple times as he rehearsed hanging upside down, locked on to a thin plank. He has a sprained neck and injured arm, but trusts him; it was all worth it when you see it on screen. He had to work on his core strength as one's body needs to be well balanced. It was not just about physical strength but also mental strength that one needs to believe in himself. The show is all about outdoing not just your contestants but yourself with every challenge one undertakes. This indeed was a high-risk act and any slip-up could have cost me my life!  The response from everybody was overwhelming and I look forward to many more such challenges on the show.

Rithvik Dhanjani said that the format of the show sees celebrity contestants taking up challenges of performing visually arresting, entertaining acts demonstrated by unique talent teams and stunt experts specially flown in from different parts of the country. The actor willingly opted for this act while the rest of the 11 celebrities shied away from taking up such a difficult task. In fact, nobody apart from him was ready to even consider it when they saw two members of the unique talent team hang mid-air on a trapeze swing and perform various stunts including, jumping from one trapeze swing to another, balancing themselves on a rope and supporting their partner. But he performed this high- risk act and proved yet again, that "he can do that".