|| By Saswat Mishra

Since 2010, Bollywood has upgraded in terms of authenticity and visuals. What they mostly provide is the surrealism in the most believable way, through computer-generated imagery (CGI) or Visual Effects (VFX). Starting from an experimental attempt, there was a lot of appreciation received for the eye-catching visuals and the setting created through high technology and heavy ambitions. Here are some of the films that used a certain kind of CGI or VFX methods to enhance the characters and the setting on screen:

Love Story 2050:

The film released in 2008, had set up a background of futuristic techs and AI setting that shows an assumption of how the world would look during the year 2050.

Ra.One:

Red Chillies Entertainment, the production house of Shah Rukh Khan had created the VFX of a highly ambitious film released during the year 2011, that featured video game characters connecting to the real world and entering into it through a technical glitch. With 130 crores being one of the expensive budgets for the films during that time, the film’s VFX is still appreciated for its authenticity.

Dhoom 3:

Released during the year 2013, Yash Raj Films had produced a third instalment of a highly loved action chase series of Bollywood, named ‘Dhoom’. Above all the ambitiousness of the production of carrying forward the series, there was a new kind of CGI and VFX introduced in the film, where an actor plays his double role with the camera in motion. Many films that starred actors playing the double role didn’t have such visual to believe that there is a doppelganger of the main lead. However, in this film, the movement of 360 degrees of the camera makes people believe the case of the double role in the film.

Krrish 3:

Being the first Indian superhero loved by the audiences, the continuity of the ‘Krrish’ series required some more authentic visuals and eye-catching VFX. And this is how, the setting of Mutants with superpowers clashing with the superhero ‘Krrish’, was one of the most appreciative moments throughout the film.

Fan:

Despite not receiving good reviews throughout the film, the makeup and the CGI used to present the main lead, Shah Rukh Khan in 2 different characters, with one looking 80% the same, but with slight changes, was one of the main highlights to be appreciated in the film.

Zero:

The film was released on 2018, where Shah Rukh Khan had experimented once again playing a dwarf character, and the whole film relied on the VFX to simply make his dwarfism look genuine, which was an appreciative effort, in spite of which, the film failed terribly.

Brahmastra Part One:

An ambitious project of Dharma Productions that took nearly a decade to be initiated due to its highly expensive and complicated content to be created. However, when created, the whole aspect of VFX and visuals was highly top-notch and appreciated by everyone.

Fighter:

India’s one of the rarest contents focused was the aerial action film, but fighter focuses on the genre perfectly with the CGI visuals of the fighter planes being genuine enough to watch.

With an increasing trend of creating Bollywood films heavily relying on VFX and CGI visuals, the films’ one of the powerful aspects of visuals has one advantage to be fulfilled through high technological facilities.