It has been a decade since filmmaker Farhan Akhtar's 'Lakshya' was released. Besides helping Farhan, who had already won plaudits for his 'Dil Chahta Hai', to shift focus to a serious genre, shooting 'Lakshya' in Ladakh also helped the filmmaker grow as a person. "I think that film ('Lakshya')...being there for five months and adapting to that (environment) teaches you a lot about yourselves and what you are capable of achieving if you want to do it. It changed me completely as a person," the 39-year-old had said in one of his interviews. So when a decade later filmmaker Farhan took to Twitter to thank his crew for keeping the film's "memory and message" alive, we knew how important the film is in his life. As the film turns 10, we give you a lowdown on the lesser-known facts about the film.
Hrithik Roshan wasn't the first choice of director Farhan Akhtar for Lakshya. The role was initially offered to Arjun Rampal. But since Arjun didn't have the required dates to shoot the film, the role was offered to Hrithik.
Some of the significant sequences in 'Lakshya' were shot in Ladakh at minus 8-9 degrees and at the approximate height of 17,800 feet above the sea level. Since the film was shot in mountains, transporting the shooting equipments wasn't easy.
Since the film was shot at high altitudes, actors and crew members even collapsed. Sushant Singh had stated in one of his interviews that if there were several takes for a shot that called for light running, the cast and crew had to depend on oxygen cylinders.
While shooting in Leh, the cast couldn't use their mobile phones. After the shoot would wrap up, everyone would use landline phones to speak to their respective families.
The fight sequences of Lakshya were shot at night when the temperature would dip to -2 Celsius, -3 Celsius, -5 Celsius.
Even though the film had an impressive star cast, it earned below-par 230 million at the domestic box office and was declared 'Flop'.
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