Swara Bhaskar Instagram – These are stills from #raanjhanaa Of the #holi sequence that we filmed in #banaras in the freezing winter of mid-December 2012! Writer #himanshusharma had beautifully written a grand Holi sequence into the screenplay capturing the energy, scale, bhaang-induced madness of Banaras’s traditional Holi. It took us 3 days to shoot and the days chosen were 20, 21 and 22 December the COLDEST days of the year. The art department had also constructed a keechad (mud/slush) pool, very thoughtfully filled with warm water which soon turned cold!!! There were almost 200 plus junior artists used for the scene, some of whom were pouring buckets of water from terraces on us while we ran through the streets. I was scared of slipping and thus was barefoot!!! i have NEVER been so cold in my life as i was those three days. But it was the MOST fun i’ve ever had shooting. It was also the first time in my life that i played Holi in a sari.. The production was very sweet and kept blankets and buckets of hot water ready for us while we waited between shots. Interestingly the writer Himanshu Sharma was missing during the filming of this sequence, he did not come on set as all the actors had sworn to throw him into the keechad pool for writing such a long and vast Holi sequence! :) #throwback #shootlife #RaanjhanaaMemories #6yearsofraanjhanaa