Updated On: 29 April, 2019 07:19 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala Kbr
From building historically accurate Lahore railway station to depicting a circus from the '60s, Bharat director Ali Abbas Zafar charts how team recreated seven decades since the 1940s

Salman Khan's look in the '60s
It was like making seven different films," says director Ali Abbas Zafar, the ambitious scale of Bharat not lost on him. The central plot of the Salman Khan-starrer — that of tracing India's journey from the Partition to the present day through the protagonist's point of view — may be simple, but executing it was a different ball game altogether.
The director, along with production designer Rajnish Hedao and stylists Alvira Agnihotri and Ashley Rebello, dedicated one-and-a-half years to research the different eras before taking the Katrina Kaif and Disha Patani film on floors.