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With rising COVID-19 cases in Mumbai, Bollywood on the back foot
Updated On: 31 March, 2021 08:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR
With rising cases and impending lockdown, makers of Adipurush, Six Suspects shoot with lean crew; Your Honour units divided into bands to avoid crowding.
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On Tuesday, Mumbai woke up to the news of an impending lockdown to curb the rising COVID-19 cases in the city. The development may put a strain on the film industry that limped back to normalcy after being hit hard by the lockdown in 2020. While the units have been following on-set guidelines since last year, it is learnt that the suits at Disney+Hotstar have informed the makers of Six Suspects, the Pratik Gandhi and Richa Chadha-starrer, to limit their crew strength to 50. “The number of people on the floor has to be 25. While the team was earlier shooting six days a week for eight hours each, it has been cut down to six-hour stints,” says the source. Similar instructions have been issued by Amazon Prime Video and Netflix to their respective productions, Four More Shots Please 3 and Dongri to Dubai.
Prabhas and Saif Ali Khan’s Adipurush is among the biggest films currently on floors. Despite its ambitious theme, director Om Raut has planned the shoot such that no more than 25 people are on set at the same time. “Om shoots his stars against the chroma background, and is simultaneously doing the VFX work,” says a production source.
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