<span class=normal> We wanted a guy who had an accent, not from here and someone who suits the character <br><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Initially we thought we would produce the film ourselves after finalizing the script. We wanted a guy who had an accent, not from here and someone who suits the character, during this phase we had only Sendhil in mind. DK and I went to America and pitched the script to him and after a series of meetings it was finalized in two days. Sendhil loved the short film and agreed in doing the film. When we came back to India, we started casting many enthusiastic and fresh candidates from FTII ranging from actors, technicians, production people, sound and many others. The criterion was that we needed extremely strong actors who fit the character well and not pretty faces. <br><br><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p> Usually sound is overlooked but for a film like Shor In The City, sound is very important <br><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>To get that particular kind of texture that we wanted, we did a lot of location scouting, we broke from the monotony of shooting at the same places like Marine Drive and Horniman Circle, by shooting at places that is usually not seen in other films. We wanted to capture a similar yet more intrinsic feel; we made sure that we had the right atmospheric sound everywhere by shooting in sync-sound. Usually sound is overlooked but for a film like Shor In The City, sound is very important. For this a lot of prep work was carried out for sound design and capturing the real sounds, all our films are sync-sound. The film was shot with multiple high definition Red cameras with customized features embedded to make the output seem more like film. The high definition camera allowed us to shoot more without worrying about handling film in the middle of the street, when shooting amongst the traffic we did not have to worry about running out of film. The entire film was shot in forty days throughout Mumbai, everything was pretty much a real location and not a made up set. </span>