Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; July 22, 2015)

Last year, Umesh Shukla's team was panic-stricken when Rishi Kapoor went missing from the sets of All Is Well. "We were shooting an important sequence in Himachal Pradesh where Rishiji was a part of a funeral procession. We searched for him all day and eventually, a spot boy found him munching samosas and drinking chai with a local family in their home. Everyone was glued to the TV screen, watching Bol Bachchan," reminisces director Umesh Shukla. And that wasn't the only surprise sprung on the unsuspecting unit. Once, when they were filming in Mashobra, their car broke down. They were all scheduled to fly back to Mumbai the next day so they had to wrap up the shoot even though the weather was bad and the road was covered in snow.

In consultation with Umesh, cinematographer Sameer Arya got Abhishek and Rishi to get off and push the car with Asin and Supriya, sitting inside. "The camera was fixed on the car and captured the windmill fields in the background, while the two actors huffed and puffed their way through a great, improvised shot. The car breakdown was a blessing in disguise," Umesh smiles.

The road trip flick is about a family on the run from goons. For one such cat-and-mouse chase, Sameer shot the mini-train which runs from Shimla to Chandigarh from inside, above and outside it. "Umesh made me stand on top of the moving train. Even though it wasn't going too fast, it was a scary but thrilling ride," Sameer recalls.

There are constant disagreements between the flamboyant and quarrelsome father (played by Rishi) and his introverted son who wants to pursue a career in singing. The mother has Alzheimer's and the girlfriend is trying to glue the cracks. "I had warned Sameer about the power cuts in Himachal. Once when we were filming a romantic scene between Asin and Abhishek, the lights went off and the shoot came to an abrupt halt. We then shot in broad daylight and switched to night mode with visual effects during post-production," Umesh reveals.

Quiz him on the film's highlight and he quips, "Rishi Kapoor peeing. His constant need to relieve himself is just a gag. And we filmed him in the act near the picturesque Igatpuri lake. It was picture perfect," he laughs.