VFX behind City of Gold : Bollywood News

With hits like Vaastav and Viruddh, the release of ace Marathi director Mahesh Manjrekars most recent venture, City Of Gold (Lalbaug Parel in Marathi) is an absolute thriller that leaves you gasping with horror that this true story has to offer. Produced by Dar Motion Pictures, the movie revolves on the plight of the citys mill workers set back in the 80s.

Although to recreate Mumbai which was set in the 80s era was by no means was an easy feat, Pixion one of Mumbais leading post production houses has accomplished this endeavor outstandingly with some of its innovative vfx..

With a combined complexity of finishing 300 to 400 shots for both Lalbaug Parel and City Of Gold simultaneously, the films mainly consisted of thirty minutes of chroma shots with a large number of wire removals and clean-ups. This task was completed in thirty days flat with a handful of thirty five artists.

One of the main challenges was that in the movie, there were around thirty to forty shots that involved lengthy, unconventional steadicam movements. So unlike any other movie, these shots consisted of around 2500 to 3000 frames, which are around two to almost three minutes of footage time. A lot of movements were happening in these shots, so tracking played a crucial part in executing the composite stage, explains Ranadheer Reddy, the vfx supervisor of the film.

Bollywood Hungama brings to you an exclusive insight into some of the VFX shots.

Camera Shadow

In this particular shot the team at Pixion had the task of cleaning up the shadows of the camera that were visible in the shot below.