When acting in a fight scene, a knife flew into actor Vagai Chandrasekar's stomach.

Director Selva is making 'Thotta' with Jeevan and Priya Mani. Vagai Chandrasekar plays the role of Priya Mani's father.

In a case, he gives evidence against the villain's henchmen. So they want to finish him off. When he is taking his daughter Priya Mani to college in an auto, the men are to waylay them and kill him.

This scene was shot by Selva yesterday at Chennai's Nandanam YMCA grounds. The actor who does the villain role was to plunge a knife into Chandrasekar's stomach. In such scenes a spring knife is usually used. Since a spring knife is small, a real big knife was used.

When the scene started, the stunt actor, instead of just taking the knife in the direction of Chandrasekar's stomach, accidentally pushed it into his stomach. With a scream, Chandrasekar collapsed. He was rushed immediately to hospital. Fortunately, the knife had not gone deep and he was declared not in danger.

This incident has shocked the Tamil film field.