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Mumbai, March 2016: A remake of the Korean film ‘The Man from Nowhere’, ‘Rocky Handsome’ revolves around a pawnshop keeper with a violent past who takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving a young girl with whom he shares a special bond.
Prime Focus had previously worked on Nishikant Kamat’s Marathi blockbuster ‘Lai Bhaari’ and was delighted to be asked back by the director to work on ‘Rocky Handsome’. The team at Prime Focus was led by VFX Supervisor Mahesh Baria, alongside VFX Producer Shadab Mujawar and Line Producer Mohamad Rafiq.
Prime Focus’ VFX team worked on some of the most exciting and visually stunning sequences in the movie, including the gas explosion, the pivotal Panjim Church scene, the eye-popping knife action sequence in the climax, as well as providing motion graphics for the ‘Rock Tha Party’ song.
The scope of work chiefly comprised chroma-key work, monitor inserts, compositing, clean up, muzzle flashes, explosion enhancements and rain enhancements. For a movie heavy on action, the most challenging sequence turned out to be the Panjim Church scene, which required compositing shots of the actors with the actual location in Goa. Panjim Church is one of the region’s most famous landmarks, and the challenge lay in depicting the church in its most intricate details with no margin of error. 40-45 VFX shots were created for this sequence alone.
With majority of the film shot in a studio instead of Goa, the team worked extensively on set extensions. CG backgrounds were seamlessly integrated with live-action shots in most of the scenes. As large numbers of sequences were shot against a backdrop of rain, matching the artificial rain in the footage with CG rain became another major challenge for the VFX team. Other VFX work delivered for the movie included enhancement of car sequences with moving reflections and lighting, and enhancing the many explosions that occur throughout the movie.
The Prime Focus VFX team delivered 790 VFX shots in a span of 100 days with a team of 50 VFX artists in Mumbai. Along with VFX, Prime Focus has also provided DI and supplied cameras for the movie. Rocky Handsome released on 25th March, 2016 and was lauded unanimously by critics for its action sequences.
Credits
Project– Rocky Handsome
Production House– J.A Entertainment and Azure Entertainment
Director– Nishikant Kamat
Producers– John Abraham and Sunir Khetrapal
Starring– John Abraham, Shruti Haasan and Sharad Kelkar
Prime Focus
VFX DI and Cameras– Prime Focus
Co- founder and Chief Creative Director– Merzin Tavaria
VFX Supervisor– Mahesh Baria
DI Colorist– Aashirwad Hadkar
VFX Producer– Shadab Mujawar
Line Producer– Mohamad Rafiq