Pavan Wadeyar is finally wrapping up shooting for his upcoming film Rana Vikrama with the last sequence picturised in the quaint medieval town of Trento and Milan in Italy. They pulled out all stops for this shoot and even hired a limousine for the sequences between hero Puneeth Rajkumar and Vikram Singh, the main villain of the film.” We had actually scheduled the shoot for four to five days but the weather supported us so well that we managed to wrap it up early,” he says.
Now that the shooting is drawing to an end, we got to hear an interesting fact from Pavan. We believe that he doesn’t follow the ritual of breaking the ash gourd at the end of the film’s shoot. This age-old tradition is followed everywhere.
“For me, just the shooting and final pack-up is not the end of a project. It so happened that after I finished my first film, Govindaya Namaha, the crew forgot to bring in the ash gourd. The last shot of my second film Googly was in Malaysia where I could didn’t have access to the gourd. Both the films were declared hits. So I decided that I would continue this tradition against tradition in my third film as well,” he says.
The director has two more days of patchwork remaining, that will be shot over the next couple of days. Meanwhile, Pavan has also improvised the climax scene, which he says was quite on the spur of the moment. “I have already written the scenes. This will be a climax after a climax. The second climax will have a roundup of all the 30 artistes in one scene. Why they will come together is something I want to create some suspense around. It is different and will be a surprise for the audience. I plan to shoot this sequence when I will get all of them together during the patchwork shoot,” he says.
Meanwhile, Puneeth will get the first glimpse of the film as he gets into the dubbing studio from today. And if all goes well and as per plans, the makers will release the film around Ugadi, which falls on March 21.