"i" Updates from Shankar

Director Shankar in his blog shared the following updates and clarified rumours.

• Weta workshop of ‘Avatar’, ‘Lord of the Rings’ & ‘Hobbit’ fame, run by Richard Taylor & Peter Jackson, is taking an important part in "I" in the special make up department. Weta is playing a major role in "i" like Stan Winston Studios played a major role in ‘Enthiran’. Weta has done a fantastic job which is going to be something new for Indian cinema. 

• The team has completed 2/3rd of the movie. The balance 1/3rd of the movie will be full ‘N full Weta Workshop’s craft.

• The shoot went continuously till March 15th and completed the shooting of 4 songs, 3 action sequences.

• A lot of scenes which are shot around China, Bangkok, Jodhpur, Kodaikanal, Pollachi and Chennai. 

• The team shot a song in which Vikram had a special make up done by Weta Workshop artist Sean Foot, and Vikram did a top class performance with it. Weta has done a fantastic job which is going to be something new for Indian cinema. The song was composed by AR Rahman, lyrics by Kabilan, choreographed by Bosco-Caesar and shot in a magnificent set erected by art director Muthuraj which is stunningly filmed by PC Sreeram.

• 'i' team did not recreate China in Kodaikanal. In China Shankar had got permissions for all the locations we wanted and had finished shooting as per our plan. Kodaikanal scenes are entirely different from China portions.

• The budget of the movie is not 150 crores and the budget will be less than 100 crores.