As Shirish Kunder’s next film with Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha deals with UFOs, director Shirish Kunder needed to make crop circles in Chandigarh where the film was shot. When UFOs land on earth, they much burn the land leaving saucer shaped tell-tale signs. The film’s production team needed to make crop circles to depict the aftermath of an UFO landing.
Crop circles are created by the flattening of crops. But shooting is tricky since the crops would dry up soon and in the event that they were damaged, shooting couldn't occur because of continuity reasons.
It would happen so often that an actor must pass through the crop circle and if that shot was not okayed, all the crew would have set them up on another location where they have got made an additional crop circle for safety and if there also shot wouldn't happen, then move to another.
Says Shirish, “It was really tedious. We consumed 1/2 Chandigarh in making the crop circles!”
This also required extreme patience of the solid member. We wondered if this angered Akshay, on which Shirish said, “ Akshay is a degree headed guy and he's known to maintain his cool on sets. I don’t think he himself remember the last time he lost his temper.”
No 3D version for 'Joker'
Shirish Kunder says that he has scrapped plans to release his next project "Joker" in 3D, considering the fate of new 3D films at the box office.
"JOKER will release in 2D format. It is a decision taken by business heads in line with the reactions to recent 2D and 3D films of giant superstars," tweeted Kunder.
Some recent 3D films in Hindi include "RA.One", "Don 2: The King Is Back" and perilous" Ishq".
Akshay plays a personality who returns to his hometown - a spot that's so remote that it is not even at the map. But sequence of events puts the little town not only at the country's map, but makes it the point of interest of all of the globe.
The story also involves aliens.
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
