FUTUREWORKS VFX BRINGS REALISM TO THE FILM DARLINGS

As shooting at the real-life location was impossible, the breath-taking climax was entirely dependent on VFX to maximize the emotional impact on the audience

Future Works delivered over 500 VFX shots for the hit film Darlings. The dark comedy smashed records for the streaming platform, with the biggest global opening weekend for a non-English language original film, clocking up more than 10 million viewing hours in its first three days.

The directorial debut of Jasmeet K.Reen, who also co-wrote the screenplay, Darlings stars Alia Bhatt as a young woman, Badru, who takes revenge on her abusive alcoholic husband Hamza, played by Vijay Varma. A nail-biting series of comic events eventually leads to a gripping showdown on a railway track, which was achieved with VFX without ever losing the sense of realism.

CREATING THE MOVIE'S DRAMATIC CLIMAX

FutureWorks was brought on to deliver VFX for the film's powerful finale. The scene involves Badru helping to tie her husband to the railway track in a bid to kill him. At this point in the story, the audience is absolutely hooked, so the train scene is designed to ramp up the tension even more before delivering the main protagonist's death as a huge shock. With such a pivotal sequence, it was vital that it had a big impact.