Losing Rs.40 lakhs without any work sitting at the Austria hotel where Rs.6000 is expenditure for food for each as the rain lashed heavily and whole shooting was called off for three days has not bothered producer Raghavendra Rajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar.
The memorable days of shooting in Namibia for ‘Jackie’ is putting the siblings in happy mood. Puneeth Rajakumar explaining the ordeals of shooting in Namibia said after ‘Ayyan’ Tamil film it is another south Indian film to shoot. This is the fourth Indian film shoot at Namibia – the other two films are ‘Gajini’ and ‘Dhoom’.
“The place like Namibia traveling is tough by the extremely good cooperation from Glen made our work easy. Going to the south of Italy was nine hours drive and we carried the jimmy jip to shoot in this place”.
“In Austria this time we could not shoot because of excessive rain”, says Puneeth. “Three days we had to sit quiet without doing any work”, he remembered. In Bangalore, Mysore, Somwarpet and Kushalnagar the shooting was held.
Among the highlights it is the technical and lighting pattern change of lenses. “I play the role of Janakiram in the film ‘Jackie’. Playing cards is a small portion of the film. It is difficult to narrate this film story. There is some experiment also dealt in this film”, says Puneeth..
On the double the business of his previous film ‘Prithvi’, for home banner ‘Jackie’ Puneeth says it should be like that.