CID breaks world record
… not for solving a case but for shooting non-stop
The CID team has reasons to celebrate. The show has found a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records 2006 and the Limca Book of Records 2006 for having shot a sequence non-stop and without a cut for a full 111 minutes.It is featured as the Longest Single Shot in the
Fiction category. The earlier record was held by a Russian production
for 25 minutes.
Supervising Producer Yash Patnaik shared with us
the details of the shoot: "We hired an under-construction hotel site in
Lonavala to shoot the sequence. Special shooting equipment was brought
in from Paris and Singapore. Ten surveillance cameras on the roof and
earpieces enabled the team to communicate with each other. The whole
idea was producer/director BP Singh's brainchild. Since it was supposed
to be a single shot, we had just one camera on the floors which
cameraman Nitin Rao was in charge of.'
"He carried the 32-kilo
camera on his shoulders for all the time and played his part perfectly
without losing anyone in the frame. Of course, the actors had their
share of labour too. They had to memorise 90 pages of script. One
mistake and we would have had to start from the scratch. But
thankfully, everything went just fine."
He further added, "It
took the 185-member team six months of preparation, seven days of
rehearsal and one attempt to get it right. I am happy we succeeded
because it was a question of our credibility. In November 2004, our
feat was acknowledged as a world record and we got the certificate in
February 2005.'
"Our name has been featured in the Guinness
Book of World Records 2006 and Limca Book of Records 2006. The scene in
question was shot exactly a year ago (October 8, 2004). Actors Shivaji
Satam, Dayanand Shetty, Mona Ambegaonkar, Smita Bansal, and Manav Gohil
were a part of this Herculean task."
The longest SCENE
The
scene involves an elderly gentleman (played by actor Mukesh Rawal) who
calls all his relatives by his deathbed and expresses a desire to make
his will. Soon after, a series of murders starts taking place in the
house. The CID team is called in to investigate.
| Longest shot in TV history |
