After Egypt and Australia it was Punjab were the team of Singh is Kinng was shooting. The location was of a beautiful wheat field spread in some 44,000 Sq feet area (one acre) Since they were to shoot village sequences over there, farm was one of the vital backdrops while shooting. They had a long schedule of some 20 days to shoot in Punjab. Apparently the time when the team was shooting in and around the wheat field was the very period of sowing the crops for the farmer. Now if the farmers were allowed to do their work in the fields, then it would have interrupted the shoot and if the farmers were barred from their own fields, then they would have suffered massive loss.
So to cope up with this situation, producer Vipul Shah zeroed down on a decision of hiring the entire field for the number of days they were suppose to shoot there and then reimburse the farmers for their loss for those many days. Reminisces Vipul Shah; " we wanted the crop fields deliberately in the backdrop to give it a proper Punjab village feel. But the sowing period of the farmers clashed with our shooting schedule, we were in a dicey situation because nether could we cancel our schedule nor could we ask the farmers to not to do their work and get in to loss. So we decided to take over the fields entirely and reimburse the farmers with their loss for that much period of time. The shooting got over peacefully and the sequence has come out really well.”
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