<span class=normal>Writer Ankur Tiwaris entry<BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>When you say the word floods, no one knows how one will create them on celluloid. VFX with water can only be done with wide shots. We had to shoot water live. So the next question was - Do we need to drown the actors in water? We went through a good few months of research and development of how the set is going to look, how we were going to shoot, how we would create the floods and various such questions. At this very time I decided not to write Tum Mile because technically I needed to be really sound. The premise was there, the story was there but the way the story had shaped up was not so good. After one hit down, you get closer to the audience. So after Jannat, I knew what would work with the audience with Tum Mile. Keeping that in mind, I re-looked at my script. So at this point, I needed someone who was better and who could re-do the job for me. Enter Ankur Tiwari, a friend of mine who hasnt worked with the Bhatt camp before. I roped him in to re-write the script. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>The marketing of Tum Mile<BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Weve seen water gushing through the lanes and cars being swept across in films like The Day After Tomorrow but how do we do this in Tum Mile was a big question. Its not that we had deep pockets and couldve kept on shooting the VFX shot. How do we claim that Tum Mile was going to be the first disaster film? Thats going to be the marketing key. At the same time, we do not want to cheat the audience too. We want them to see disaster. Yes, Tum Mile is a love story but its not about a couple who meets in the floods and them stranded in one room. Weve got the sight and sound of Mumbai, the villain of the film - floods, etc. Putting all this down on paper was difficult but Ankur is an extremely sensible guy who did justice to the script. Now because 26th July was a true story about floods, you can only fictionalise it to a certain extent. Once you say Tum Mile is a story on the 26th July 2005, everything becomes real. </span>