Are Shah Rukh Khan and Farah Khan cheating the audience?

Farah Khan's Happy New Year starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead is creating quite a buzz for being shot at exotic locations in Dubai. The trailer of the film highlights the famous Atlantis, The Palm hotel, where most of the film is said to be shot. However, contradictory to what is being promoted, a source close to the project reveals that most of the film is shot in Mumbai and only a few portions have been shot in Dubai!

 

Reveals the insider, "A replica of key Dubai locations and even the parts of Atlantis hotel (where a lot of crucial sequences unfold) were built up in Mumbai. Thus the exteriors of Atlantis are real (captured on real location) but the interiors of the hotel are not real as they were created ditto at Mumbai based film studios." One such interesting set up which took a mamoth of a task to construct was the set of World Dance Championship.

 

"Farah Khan was very particular that the set looks very international. World Dance Championship or WDC as seen in the trailer is a platform for world dancers who would be competing against each other in the film. The sequence is shown to be happening inside the Atlantis hotel, but in real it was shot at Film City, Mumbai," reveals the source. 

As per the insider, a team of 150 people got together to erect the World Dance Championship set which was 150 feet long and 60 feet tall (close to a six storey building) structure, in just a matter of 20 days. 

"Apart from being vast and glamarous, the set is extremely mechanical. A lot of hydraulics have been used so you see certain portions of the stage moving up and down, rotating left and right as per requirement. It's a visual treat onscreen," adds the source. 

Set for an October 24, Diwali release, Happy New Year is Shah Rukh's third film with Farah after Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om. The film also brings together the hit Srk-Deepika jodi after their successful stints in films like Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express. The movie also stars Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani among others.