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Having shot Rinzing Denzongpa's debut film in Belarus pre-pandemic, director Nilesh Sahay on flying to Europe amid COVID-19 restrictions to complete Squad
Denzongpa on set with the director
A compact crew of 50 headed from India, and 100 unit hands were hired in Minsk. The shooting guidelines were followed to the T as they shot eight hours a day. "We had 1,000 rapid testing kits, with stuntmen being tested every six hours. We would not shoot more than 50 minutes at a stretch, and the set was fumigated every hour," states the director. In the eight months that separated the two schedules, did he not consider filming the remaining sequences in India? "In the worst-case scenario, that would've been the only option. But that is not how we wanted to complete the film. Squad is the first Indian movie to have been shot there."
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