Later, Music Composer Sam Cardon, with nine large format films to his credit, added to the high quality team making this film. Each of them well known in the industry and with years of experience with large format films. After this worldwide search of meeting Directors, DPs, post-production Laboratories and many other professionals, BAPS brought on board Director Keith Melton, Director of Photography Reed Smoot and Writer Mose Richards. Nearly 100 large format professionals were consulted. Using this brief with the authentic documentation, research papers and historic manuscipts, scriptwriter Kamlesh Pandey crafted the original Hindi script. The research was done, now we had to look for the right professionals to shoot the film and the right locations where to film.īAPS extensively researched historic manuscripts and briefed the complete story to Kamlesh Pandey. Many hundreds of hours went into this research. The BAPS researchers took every detail of what villages, clothing, and monuments looked like 200 years ago. Prized resources included the original books and drawings published by the British Government and books of other explorers who traveled through India at that time.Īpart from research for the story development, the costumes and settings had to reflect the people and places of 18th century India, to transport the audience back in time. Since this film was based on a true story which took place 200 years ago, the authenticity factor underlined everything. These BAPS researchers spent one year referring to more than 270 books in 17 libraries and private collections. Research on the central character of Neelkanth was conducted with 200 year old books and illustrations of those times. Research into these fields was carried out by a team of BAPS historians who referred to old texts, met other experts, went to many ancient sites. India is an ancient civilization with contributions in all spheres - from science to art, language to mathematics, philosophy to chemistry.

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