Banaras: A Mystic Love Story location snaps

It’s time that I introduced the team which worked behind the scenes to make “Banaras” happen. The pictures that you see were taken on the location in Banaras and Mauritius where most of the film was shot.

Director: Pankuj Parashar
Chief Assistant Director: Bablu
Assistant Director: Yash

Pankuj & his assistant Yash and with his other crew members while shooting the scene, where Buddha with his followers walks on the banks of Ganges in Banaras.




Chief Asstt. Bablu with his assistant preparing to shoot the ghat scenes.



Script & Dialogue co writer: Javed Siddiqi
Executive Producer: Inder Kumar
Lyricist: Sameer
Director of photography (dop): Nirav Shah


Pankuj, Sameer, Javed & I, at the mahurat recording of the songs



Nirav in Mauritius enjoying dinner at Le Meridian



I & Inder Kumar on location hunting for the movie.(camera has been clicked by Pankuj Parashar)
In front of “Mahendranath's Bunglow” ( Ramnagar Palace)



Some other behind the scenes shots of : Urmila, Dimple, Ashmit & Naseer

Bold Urmila:
Scene where she is informed about her father's illness: standing on a cliff with a very big drop and she was standing right at the edge.( Uncomfortable with the risk) when I told Urmila that she should stand away from the edge, she shrugged her shoulders and said that “If it is needed, it must be done”. Now you know those were real fearsome tides which were hitting the rocks and rising hundreds of feet (the tides were for real, not computer generated)



Urmila preparing for her opening scene:



Dimple - Mother & Urmila-Daughter Bonding: