Rajkumar Gupta’s forthcoming ‘Ghanchakkar’ must be shot in some busy locales of Mumbai, but acquiring permissions for shooting in these places involves numerous financial pressure and long delays. So, the makers have decided to move for guerilla variety of film making at various public locations in Mumbai. That may be how Gupta had shot Rajeev Khandelwal in ‘Aamir’.
As such, within the coming two months, the lead pair of the movie, Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan will shoot for the movie with a skeletal crew and hidden cameras. The speculation is to land in without warning, wrap up the shoot and leave before the general public knows their presence.
Gupta confirms the report saying, “After we finish shooting the initial spell within the studio we go at the streets to perform a little guerrilla filmmaking. It’s risky, yes. And Vidya and Emraan are very talked-about faces for whom anonymity might be nearly impossible. But I’ve never made safe films. And my actors are game. So let’s see the way it goes.”
Initially, the shooting was speculated to begin in September, and Gupta needed to curb his want to shoot the celebs drenched within the monsoon rains, but now, the shooting have been preponed to August.
Gupta narrated, “I had originally planned an August schedule. And Vidya, who's in this day and age doing no other film, was completely one with my film’s schedule. But Emraan was busy promoting ‘Raaz 3? in August because the film was alleged to release on the end of August.
But now I FEEL ‘Raaz 3? have been pushed forward, so I got the window to shoot the scenes that I NEEDED. I SUPPOSE I'M just lucky…”
However, shooting with Rajeev was a unique issue. It might be risky to shoot in this type of way with Emraan and Vidya as they're quite popular faces.
“I agree. But both are used to shooting within the crowded outdoors. If Vidya could brave the Kolkata crowds in ‘Kahaani’ and the Delhi crowd in my film ‘No One Killed Jessica’, then Mumbai could be a cakewalk in comparison,” says Gupta.
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