MUMBAI: Shekhar Kapoor has decided to shoot his futuristic film, Paani, in China.

Intially, the film was to have been shot in Mumbai. But filming in the city is now ruled out since the film’s plot requires the filmmaker to construct a futuristic city with two sharply demarcated sections: The Upper City (for the elite with abundant water supply) and The Lower City (for the poor). Love and conflict ensue when the boy from the Lower City sneaks into the forbidden Upper City. 

Creating such a big set in Mumbai seemed difficult and hence Kapoor chose China. He has already visited China thrice this year. Said Kapoor, "I‘d shoot Paani anywhere where I‘d get the intellectual and geographical space to build my city of a water-challenged future.”

Spain had also opened its doors to Shekhar for Paani, but the visionary in the director has taken a liking to China in toto.

The last Hindi film to be shot in China was Nikhil Advani‘s Chandni Chowk To China.