What is tough while making historical films is to craft war scenes that look like one. In some films like Vijay’s Puli, Anushka’s Rudramadevi and Kangana’s Manikarnika, war scenes look like a puppet show for various reasons. But how to make one like the one we see in Game Of Thrones?
Sye Raa has the answer for that if the teaser that was released other day is to be considered. More than visual effects alone, actually war scenes should be shot using real horses and also on jeeps and other equipment that go at the speed of those real animals. And visual effects should support the live-shots so perfectly that they should bring a more realistic look to the war rather just creating blood splatter and sword piercing. There is a reason why they are looking such real and awesome in Sye Raa teaser.
The whole of these war sequences are actually shot in Georgia with real horses and real riders. Then we have the likes of experienced Hollywood action choreographers Greg Powell and Lee Whittaker composing them, whose working style and output are totally different from how our ‘masters’ do. Then we have the latest camera rigs, cranes and other motion control equipment used by cinematographer Ratnavelu to film those scenes. On top of everything, talented VFX teams have done the rest of magic in the post-production.
This type of work actually makes the genuine different and we should appreciate Surender Reddy as well as Ram Charan in picking up such able technicians.
