'Tubelight' shooting locations: From a quaint town to the mesmerising beauty of Ladakh

Tubelight is an Indian war-drama film released in 2017. It stars Salman Khan in le role and is directed by Kabir Khan. Tubelight is an emotional movie set against  backdrop of 1962 Si-Indian war. Along with a powerful storyline and touching performances, it also features some breathtaking locations.

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Tubelight shooting locations

In an interview with a media portal, Tubelight director Kabir Khan revealed how locations play a pivotal role in his movies. He emphasised that it is important for him to shoot in real locations inste of closed sets so that his characters can develop a connection with  environment.

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Where was Tubelight filmed?

Manali, Himachal Presh

beautiful Indian resort town of Manali features in first half of Tubelight. Salman’s character Laxman Singh Bisht resides in Manali with his bror, played by Sohail Khan. It is a treat to watch characters in various locations of town as it sits on lap of Himalayas.

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Lakh

In order to pursue director Kabir’s vision, cast and crew travelled to Lakh to shoot later part of film. In a behind--scenes video posted on YouTube, director Kabir Khan talks about importance of Lakh in movie. He has expressed that Tubelight shooting locations h to be untouched and at a high altitude to do justice to film's script. war sequence of film was shot in Lakh.

In video, actor Sohail Khan describes challenges faced by cast and crew while filming. He mentions that it became especially challenging when raging winds started blowing and dust or tiny pebbles would blow into eyes of cast and crew. But le actors Salman Khan, Sohail Khan and rest of crew cooperated with director and faced versities for almost three months while shooting film.

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Salman Khan and Kabir Khan have worked toger in movies like Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Ek Tha Tiger and more before Tubelight. Salman has often joked during promotions that Kabir me him scale daunting mountains multiple times just to get that one perfect shot. Tubelight released on June 25, 2017. This marks  last film appearance of actor Om Puri who passed away on January 6, 2017, shortly after completing film.