Mumbai, March 18
Shooting at public places in Mumbai seems to be becoming difficult, thanks to exorbitant rent rates. This, director Apoorva Lakhia discovered when he decided to shoot his horror film "Hide 'N' Seek" in a shopping mall here.
"I was told the rental charge at a city mall would be Rs 2.5 lakh per hour! It was more economical for me to shoot in Bangkok's Sony Mall. It's quite understandable why more and more units are shooting away from Mumbai," Lakhia told IANS.
He finally shot in a mall in Ahmedabad.
"We had to shoot for 21 days and we were given permission to shoot from 11p.m. to 6 a.m. And thereafter in the basement for a couple of hours every day