Hyderabad: In Dhoom 3, baddie Aamir Khan had created quite the buzz with that parkour stunt in the movie. But city parkour champion Sreeramachandra Yasaswy Modukuru, who has been practising the sport for five years now, was unlucky enough to be spotted by guards who hadn’t watched the movie yet.
Modukuru, on Friday evening, was practicing parkour at the Melkote Park in Himayatnagar, when the 23-year-old was caught, manhandled and thrown out of the venue by some very confused security guards. The guards even claimed they had seen “thousands of sportsmen practice at the park and what he was doing, just made him look like a thief”.
Modukuru explained the incident to Deccan Chronicle. “There was a pyramid kind of a structure around which I was training. The structure is very strong... I wasn’t trying to destroy it and no one was disturbed by my activities. With a headset on, I was listening to music while training and that’s when a park employee saw me and called the other guards. I explained the sport to the them but they just didn’t listen and then caught me by the neck, hurled abuses and just pushed me out of the park,” said Modukuru.
The M.Sc student at Hyderabad Central University has been a traceur — a practitioner of parkour — for the past five years.
“I plan on filing a police complaint. I couldn’t get the guards’ names but I can recognise them. This has happened to me for the first time. I agree that not many from the city know about it but the guards had no business accusing me of being a thief. I wish there were more traceurs training with me,” he adds.
Modukuru is training for the world-wide parkour contest that’s taking place in Greece in October. “I won’t be going back to Melkote Park ever again. I will instead train at the Public Gardens.”
