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4. Bheem & Raju's First Meeting Was A Creative Combination Of VFX & Miniatures - RRR
First off, if you haven't seen RRR yet, head to Netflix and watch it right now.
The zeitgeist-grabbing Indian epic kicks off with an unforgettable bombastic sequence in which heroes Bheem (N. T. Rama Rao Jr.) and Raju (Ram Charan) team up to acrobatically save a boy from the flaming trainwreck above him.
While it's no secret that the scene employed its fair share of VFX, what's surprising is just how much of the set-piece was actually captured in-camera on location and melded with digital effects.
A VFX breakdown of the scene reveals that iron-cast scale miniatures of the train cars were created in Virginia and shipped more than 8,000 miles to Hyderabad in India for shooting.
Once the miniature train explosion was shot, the production then moved to the city of Rajahmundry to capture reference footage for the river village environment surrounding the train.
The village was then created entirely digitally and combined with both the miniatures and practical wire work stunts from the actors.
Back in Denmark, the VFX team spent months compositing the sequence together, which is undeniably one of the three-hour extravaganza's standout sequences.