The Salimgarh Bypass on the Ring Road will be showcased in upcoming Bollywood flick Bang Bang featuring some top stars of the Bollywood namely Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu and Danny Denzongapa.
The shooting of the movie began on the four-kilometre corridor between ITO and Salimgarh Fort on Wednesday leaving scores of passers-by fascinated. Some stunts of the movie were being filmed at the bypass that will continue for another four days.
Though the shooting of the movie, which has prominent faces of the film industry, is being done since 45 days but this is the first time when the location has been shifted to on the banks of the River Yamuna. A shooting staff said that they selected the location keeping in view of beauty of the river bank. The staff also revealed that the road will be out of bounds for traffic due to shooting till Sunday and later the location will be shifted to some other place. The shooting in national Capital will end on March 9. The stunts in the movie have been directed by Andy Armstrong who is also known for having directing action sequence in Hollywood movie Spider Man II. It has also been revealed that the stunts will be performed by Hrithik Roshan himself.
To avoid chaos, the Delhi Traffic Police blocked the entire carriageway and diverted the traffic of ITO-Salimgarh side via Raj Ghat. Though the traffic flow remained largely uninterrupted, people could not resist stopping by and try getting a glimpse of the stars. Around 200 staff were seen managing traffic and dispersing people who were coming to the venue. Though shooting is being done between 10 am to 6 pm but the corridor has been closed for five days.
Bang Bang is an upcoming Hindi action thriller film directed by Siddharth Raj Anand. The film is an official remake of the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz starrer, Knight and Day. Shooting for the film began in June 2013. While shooting for the film in Phuket, Thailand, Hrithik Roshan leapt from a height of 30 feet and sustained an injury while falling into a water body which delayed the shooting. It resumed in January this year, in Shimla and Manali and later shifted to Delhi.
Earlier, the shooting of Saif Ali Khan’s movie, Agent Vinod, was done on the Barapullah elevated corridor and Connaught Place in year 2011 that had attracted scores of Delhiites. Though the shooting had witnessed huge gathering of people and traffic chaos but this time the alertness of traffic police and unit staff helped in avoiding any such situation.