Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is all set to take the director’s chair once again after the landslide success of his last biopic on the ‘Flying Sikh’ – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – with his next project titled Mirziya. Now the director has hired a special VFX team for a night safari sequence, which marks the debut of star kid – Harshvardhan Kapoor (son of Anil Kapoor) and Saiyami Kher.
This VFX team he has hired has worked on hit films like ‘Life of Pi’, ‘Cars’, ‘Tron Legacy’ and ‘Tinker Bell’. What impressed Mehra the most was their work on the movie ‘Life of Pi’. It was only after witnessing their potential in the film, that he took the decision of hiring them.
The director was keen that the best VFX team comes on board to work on his ambitious project. There is a special night safari sequence in the film which is very high on action and is one of the most pivotal sequences in the film. The filmmaker wanted to capture this scene spectacularly. Harshvardhan and Saiyami have also been trained in horse riding for the same.
Mehra shares, “Mirzya tries to raise the bar of how our films look at par with the best Hollywood has to offer. The team behind the visual effects is one of the best the world has to offer. I would like to offer our audiences a visual experience which they have never experienced before .”
In his earlier outing with Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Mehra had assigned the VFX duties to Pixion Studios and worked closely with VFX supervisor Viral Thakkar for delivering the project.