For the penultimate schedule of her upcoming Pulkit Samrat-Yami Gautam starrer Sanam Re, director Divya Khosla Kumar recreated the sleepy by-lanes of Shimla, complete with woody cottages, a post office and flaky snowflakes, in Mumbai's Film City. “Sadly, my actors who were covered in several layers of woollies, had to sweat it out,“ she sighs, describing her romantic-drama as a path-breaking film, “like Yash Chopra's Lamhe“.

When asked why she couldn't fly her unit down to Shimla and restrict the budget, she reasoned, “I wanted colourful row-houses in one lane for a particular sequence. We couldn't find them in Shimla where we've shot a major chunk of the film, so we built a set in Mumbai.“

The final schedule is in Canada. “The film starts in the '80s, moves to the 90's and concludes in the present-day,“ she explains, adding that the set will be soon dismantled.

Now, if she'd been able to conjure up a real snowfall in May, Mumbaikars would have begged her to keep the made-in-Mumbai Shimla standing in Film City forever!