Aamir Khan deftly shot a chase sequence for Reema Kagti's Next at Western Railway's Charni Road station in South Mumbai Sunday evening, April 24 around 5 pm, a peak holiday commute hour.
Khan pulled off the guerrilla shoot without being mobbed or disturbed by fans, as commuters went about their business oblivious to the shoot.
The 46-year-old actor plays a Crime Branch cop in the film and the sequence shot showed him chasing a criminal..
A Jib mounted camera was positioned on a bridge close to the railway station, allowing the director to capture a view of the entire station without alerting anyone to the film crew's presence.
The film's unit arrived on location to rig up the camera an hour before the shoot. Some commuters noticed the jib crane and made inquiries, but the crew played down their excitement saying they were on location to film a TV commercial with a little known male model. As a result, no crowd gathered..
A Sawfnews.com source tells us that Aamir came out of his vanity van when the cameras were placed and did the shoot in just 2 takes, and he was gone. The shoot wrapped immediately as they crew managed to capture the scene successfully!
Charni Road is a key station for Mumbaikers who want to visit the nearby Girgaum Chowpatty (beach). On a Sunday people start arriving at the station from 4 pm onwards to walk down to Chowpatty.
What may have made the shoot easier is that the Mumbai Indians' match was being telecast around that time and most people were indoors glued to their TV sets.
Khan appears to have mastered the art of successfully filming in crowded Mumbai, without being hassled by fans. He pulled off a guerrilla shoot using hidden cameras during the filming of Dhobi Ghat last year, when he shot during the holy month of Ramzan in the crowded and predominantly Muslim locality of Bhendi Bazaar in South Mumbai.
More recently, Salman Khan went unrecognized in crowded Colaba in Mumbai, while shooting Bodyguard earlier this month.
Reema Kagti's Next, reportedly titled Zakhmi, is set in a red light area in Mumbai. It additionally headlines Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor, who play the roles of social worker and sex worker respectively.
Aamir Khan is also co-producer of the film.
