Kiccha Sudeep: Vikrant Rona got a 3D version because the 2D visuals were not doing justice to the beauty of the sets

Vikrant Rona is, by far, the most expensive film ever for its leading man, Kiccha Sudeep. And that is because of the sheer scale at which it was made. The team brought director Anup Bhandari’s vision to the screen with actual sets of forests, temples and even an 80-feet-by-40 feet ark, all of which was expensive to make and maintain.

And yet, after putting up all these sets and beginning the shoot, Sudeep felt there was something amiss. During an interview with GalattaPlus, Sudeep said that the first thought that the film had to be in 3D came about when the team was putting together the forest set. The actor-filmmaker saw the beauty of the set, with all its layers and depth, and yet, every time he’d sit to watch the rushes on the monitor with director Anup Bhandari, he felt something was amiss. What looked wonderful to the naked eye, was, for some reason a tad underwhelming on the monitor.

In fact, at first Sudeep thought that the monitor was not doing justice to the visuals of the set and wondered whether to get a bigger one. But even with a bigger monitor, the actor was not happy with the output on the screen. It was only after giving the visuals a closer look that Sudeep finally figured out what was missing – it needed to be in 3D to really capture it in all its glory.

Once the idea was mooted, Anup and Sudeep had discussions with multiple tech firms specializing in 3D conversion, some of who presented them with “mindblogging samples”, to figure out what they needed to do on set to make the conversion even better. Eventually, it became a lot more expensive than directly shooting it in 3D, but, Sudeep says that it was a lot less stressful to capture the visuals.

The fantasy-action-drama Vikrant Rona will release in theatres on July 28 in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.