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Amid flying cars, et al, in Mumbai

Staff Reporter

Love Story 2050 has used about 1,200 special effects

— PHOTO: BHAGYA PRAKASH K.

PROMOTING FILM: Boman Irani and Harman Baweja in Bangalore.

BANGALORE: On Friday afternoon, stars dawned on Bangalore. Harman Baweja, touted to be the “next best thing” in Bollywood, along with Boman Irani flew down to the IT hub to promote their eagerly awaited film “Love Story 2050.” Sun Microsystems, a leading technology provider, is the technology partner of India’s first sci-fi film. The film directed by Harry Baweja features Priyanka Chopra and introduces Harry Baweja’s son Harman in the lead role.

The futuristic film shows Mumbai in 2050. It has used about 1,200 special effects.

Actor Boman Irani enacts the role of a “mad scientist”, Dr. Ya, who has made a time machine, and Sana (enacted by Priyanka) expresses her wish to travel time to Mumbai. Harman and Priyanka who play the couple in the film find themselves amid flying cars, 200-storey buildings, robots and sky rails. The film replete with SFX has taken a couple of years to be made. The film will be released on July 4.

“We wanted the visual effects to be on par with international level. My father and I went to 40 studios across the world and then narrowed down on 5-6 studios and divided the work among them,” said Harman at a press conference here.

The visual effects that you see in the film have been developed on Sun technologies. Sun Microsystems provided infrastructure support to some of the special effects in the film created by Hollywood studios. A few rushes of the film were screened.

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