How was the cast chosen?
The casting director of the film, Urmila, made all the casting decisions.
Is the film set in Sriharikota? I remember seeing some models of rockets when I visited the sets.
Yes, the film is set in a rocket centre like Sriharikota. But the story does not dwell on the day to day functioning or the technical aspects of that organisation. There are elements of ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence) and IB (Intelligence Bureau) involved intrinsically in the screenplay.
Your son Sandeep makes his debut as the director of photography. Are you happy with his work?
Given the constraints of a tight schedule, Sandeep has done a more than competent job. Usually a debutant DOP takes a lot of time to set up shots, just to make doubly sure. But I have been rather unfair with Sandeep. I would rush him because of pressure of dates from busy character artistes and time-bound location permissions. Yet he delivered unruffled.
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