Ayan Mukerji talks about hardships faced during Brahmastra shoot

• Brahmastra, starring Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor, was directed by Ayan Mukerji.
• Filmed the climax completely on an indoor studio stage, complete against blue screen.
• Like Star Wars and Avatar, Brahmastra is unique in that it is a completely original fantasy.

The record-breaking film Brahmastra, starring Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor, was directed by Ayan Mukerji. As the director begins to relive the enchanting experience, he describes the difficulties his crew encountered while filming the climax.

He remembered, “We started the shoot of Brahmastra with the climax which is very unusual for any film. We felt if we take on the most challenging part of the film first, it would just be great overall and would kind of teach us how to make this film.”

He further added, “There’s all this like energy, whizzing powers, all these energies interact in the climax and all those energies obviously had to be created. We made a decision to film the climax completely on an indoor studio stage, complete against blue screen. We needed to create spectacular lighting to kind of stimulate the light of what it’s like when the Brahmastra wakes up”.

He revealed, “We realized that we were running into hurdles doing that in India and so we moved this setup completely to Bulgaria. We were able to bring in a lot of resources from different parts of Europe into Bulgaria.”

He concluded, “Brahmastra is an original piece of fantasy writing. A lot of the big films in the West that we admire today are all based on comic books and literature that were already created. Brahmastra, like Star Wars and Avatar, is unique in that it is a completely original fantasy”.

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