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Time-travel Milo sequence

This sequence appears at the fag end of the movie when Neil Nitin Mukesh opens up his grandfathers watch, turns its dials and goes on a short time travel journey, spanning from a building towering the city to a desert to a dark tunnel. VFX supervisor for the film, Abhishek De says, The sequence has camera movement through the watch and then from location to location, with Neil in different costumes.

VFX expert Eric Alba from Los Angeles supervised the entire shoot. Neil had to understand and emote against a green screen with the

pre-viz and rough backgrounds as his only aides. He had to do the same actions again and again, changing costumes and responding differently to different phases in the sequence. Care was taken to get the lighting proper during the shoot.

The pre-visualization in 3D animatics was done to depict the size and height of floor, position of the track markers, chrome ball, so that we are very clear before we went on to the shoot, adds Abhishek.

Bimal Potdar worked on the matt paintings for the backgrounds and Mike Laxman designed the CG elements including the buildings, clouds and the truck. In all there were 60 layers that were rendered as separate passes and composited on Flame by Deepak Pais. The brief was to make it as real as possible. The director was specific about what the backgrounds would look like, adds Abhishek.

This is what director Jehangir Surti had to share, Despite the accuracy of a Milo shoot, due to the human element involved in it there are bound to be errors. The FutureWorks team came in and made sure that we came as close to perfect. I told them I wanted a city, they came up with the backgrounds. I did not want the Milo to look like a Milo. People are aware of clothes being changed but not background. I wanted it to be as simple as possible, something that takes a lot of effort.

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