Deconstructing the VFX of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag : Bollywood News

While the camera rotates around the principal actor, his body morphs into a pumped up version of himself

This project posed quite a few challenges for instance, one important scene where-in Farhan was being trained in Ladakh, with a turnaround shot of him sitting and transforming. His trainer in the scene gives him a skipping rope with bogging weights to his legs. This was the practice up to the final race. This was made possible by shooting against a chroma backdrop, in which we had fused a 360 degree camera to go around Farhan. While the camera rotates around the principal actor, his body morphs into a pumped up version of himself. As far as the physical transformation was concerned no VFX was used at all. To execute the turnaround morph shots, we procured two plates one which had a turnaround when Farhan was thin and lean - while the other was with him bulked up which took 8 months to achieve. We matched both the camera moves and morphed Farhans separate appearance, the environment around him was completely made in CGI as well, which was Ladakh which also morphed into the stadium.