India, July 16 -- When director Prem decided to have a shot of Sanjay Dutt as Dhak Deva brandishing a severed head and placing it on a table in a police station in the teaser of his film KD The Devil, it was clear that he intended to let audiences know that his story has quite a lot of violence in it. Reaffirming this is actor-filmmaker Ramesh Aravind, who proclaims that KD is, indeed, a very violent saga and the proof, he says, is in the bucket loads of (fake) blood that Prem ordered on the set of the film.

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"Normally, when an actor is on the set of a film, the makeup kit will include, say, 100 ml or so, of fake blood, to be used if the character sustains ...