Salman Khan, who launched the trailer of Roar - Tigers Of The Sundarbans, was impressed with the film's visual effects. Shooting this action adventure set in the dense mangrove forest was no cakewalk for actor-turned-director Kamal Sadanah and debutant producer Abis Rizvi. Showcasing the man-animal conflict, this film has over 800 shots laden with special effects and aerial visuals of the Sundarbans. Says Sadanah, “We spent four months doing the test shoots. We shot with trained tigers from Los Angeles and Thailand and composited these sequences with the ones taken at Sundarbans with VFX. Abis and I also took up an online course in visual effects."

While LA-based Michael Watson, who has earlier worked on The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, was hired as the DOP, a team from Scandinavia was roped in to film the aerial shots using helicams.
Says Rizvi, “With an international crew of 150 on board and a 300-member VFX team, it took us 12 months to edit the film and put our audacious dream out on celluloid."

Roar -Tigers Of The Sundarbans, produced by Abis Rizvi Films, releases September 19.