Bell Bottom becomes first film to start and finish shooting during COVID-19 pandemic

Akshay Kumar has wrapped up the shoot of his upcoming film Bell Bottom in Scotland. The makers released a new poster to announce the film wrap. Bell Bottom is the first film in the world to start and finish shooting during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The cast and crew of the film flew off to UK to shoot in August and finished it on September 30.

Talking about finishing the film during the coronavirus pandemic, Akshay Kumar said, "It's teamwork and I am grateful to each and every member of the cast and crew, from the spot dadas to the light dadas to the technicians to the make-up dadas to my lovely heroines Vaani, Lara, Huma, my director Ranjit and to Vashuji and the production team who believed in our audacious plan. The new normal has made us realise a different way



of working that none of us could have imagined. I hope this encourages film industries globally to do what they do best and start entertaining audiences again. I hope our shoot during the pandemic reassures others that keeping all safety in mind it’s time to get things moving again.”

Sharing the new poster, Akshay Kumar wrote, "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. Its teamwork and I am grateful to each and every member of the cast and crew. #BellBottomCompleted. Here’s the poster (sic)."

Bell Bottom has become the first of the films that resumed filming in the pandemic to complete shooting. Other major films that got back on the floors during the pandemic include Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 7 and Jurassic Park: Dominion.