Fighter Movie
Siddharth Anand narrated the idea of making a big-budget action thriller against the backdrop of fighter jets while shooting the film War (2019). Hrithik Roshan loved the basic premise of the story. During COVID-19 lockdown in India, Anand worked on developing the story further and narrated it to Roshan, who later confirmed for the film. In December 2020, it was reported that Siddharth Anand and Hrithik Roshan are going to reunite for a film after War (2019).
Fighter was officially announced on 10 January 2021, on the occasion of Hrithik Roshan's birthday.The film is the India's first aerial action film.It is the first instalment in its franchise.The film is produced by Siddharth Anand, Jyoti Deshpande,Mamta Anand, Ramon Chibb and Anku Pande under banners Viacom18 Studios and Marflix Pictures.The film is being made on a budget of ₹250 crore.
The film is designed for a global audience, and would involve the use of latest technology and filming techniques.
Pre-production
Ramon Chibb, an ex-army officer and writer, wrote the story with help of Siddharth Anand.Later, Anand and his team of writers developed a screenplay of the film in the lockdown under the supervision of Hrithik Roshan.Akshay Oberoi said that the film has "much heavier" action scenes than Pathaan (2023).Anand further retained most of his norm technicians including cinematographer Satchith Paulose, editor Aarif Sheikh, stunt choreographer SeYeong Oh, and action director Sunil Rodrigues.Raj Khatri designed posters of the film.
In September 2022, Roshan started taking workshops and had continued 12-week simulator training and learned the nuances of playing a fighter jet pilot.His training was supervised by Kris Gethin, developing his abdominal muscles and losing weight.In November, he visited air base and the Air Force training academy in Telangana, and also spent time with the pilots and cadets to observe their demeanour and understand the way that they function.
Real-life Indian Air Force cadets have worked for the film. They were flown in from the air force headquarters in Delhi and Dundigal Air Force Academy near Hyderabad.
Casting
In January 2021, Deepika Padukone and Hrithik Roshan were officially announced as the leads marking their maiden film together.Roshan portrays Patty, an air force officer. Roshan revealed his character as "young, spontaneous and short-tempered".Padukone also plays an air force officer and has several action sequences in the film.Both Padukone and Roshan took martial arts training for their rolesa.Anil Kapoor joined the cast in December 2021. Karan Singh Grover and Akshay Oberoi were roped in by November 2022.In March 2023, Talat Aziz joined the cast to play role of Patty's father in the film.In May 2023, Sanjeeda Sheikh was confirmed to play a key role.
Filming
Principal photography began on 14 November 2022 in Assam.Roshan, Padukone, and Kapoor joined in the schedule, that took place in Tezpur Air Force Station.The team returned to Mumbai on 28 November 2022 after wrapping the 10-day first schedule in Assam.
For the second schedule, the team moved to Jammu and Kashmir on 6 February 2023. Akshay Oberoi also joined this schedule.The team returned to Mumbai on 12 February, after filming at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, where a song and few action sequences choreographed by Sunil Rodrigues, were shot.
The third schedule was held at Dundigal Air Force Academy in Hyderabad, to shoot Roshan's character, as an Air Force cadet undergoing training.The third schedule was wrapped in Hyderabad on 6 March.
On 19 March, Roshan began filming in a Chembur bungalow for the fourth schedule, in Mumbai. In this schedule, Talat Aziz joined and a few emotional scenes were shot. It was reported that the month long schedule would end on 24 April.Kapoor, via Instagram, shared a behind-the-scenes video of his workout in -110 degrees Celsius for the schedule. The team also shot a 25-minute long climactic scene that includes an action sequence, which reportedly took 120 hours (5 days) to shoot.
For the next schedule, production designer Rajat Poddarr and his team built an expansive set that housed the interiors of an air force base, classrooms, and offices at Yash Raj Studios, in Mumbai.On 14 May, the next schedule was started with Padukone, Roshan, Kapoor and Grover joining the schedule.On 19 May, the team shot combination scenes of Padukone and Kapoor at Mysore Colony, Chembur over 3 days. From 22 May, emotional scenes between Padukone and Roshan were shot in Chandivali, with only 20–30 extras to avoid the film's footage leaks online.
The Mumbai schedule was completed in mid-June.Roshan shot inside an Sukhoi Su-30MKI for over 12 days.Dramatic scenes between Roshan and Kapoor was shot in late August in Mumbai.In early September, a song featuring Roshan, Padukone, along with the entire cast, choreographed by the duo Bosco–Caesar, was shot at Yash Raj Studios.Later in early October, the team wrapped two songs in Sardinia, Italy Principal photography wrapped by 30 October 2023 at Yash Raj Studios, with filming having lasted 87 working days.
Post-production
Post-production for the film begin by early-June 2023, once the film completed its shooting and was going for six months as the film involved extensive computer graphics and visual effects.The VFX work of the film was done by DNEG
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