this move seriously impacted all the three particularly the ukraine and it had to mend its own ways to raise finances in various ways one was to invite film production companies to shoot their films on their land full of scenic european beauty snowcovered mountains sprawling meadows more hasslefree procedures accompanied by being cheap costwise he saysyou carry say one million inr in your pocket and the moment you are in ukraine one million becomes over 25 million ukrainian hryvnia naturally bollywoods location managers and agents pushed midbudget productions towards the ukraine he addsfilmmaker neeraj pandey who shot special ops 15 the himmat story in ukraine says their decision to choose the location was entirely based on the covid scenario there were very few options that were available to us ukraine had opened up at that point of time and we were wanting to complete the shoot and deliver the 15 version of special ops for us the very fact that this was the only option available and the fact that it suited all our requirements it fulfilled all our requirements in terms of location we changed the script we shot kyiv for kyiv we also shot some portions of london over there and some portions of moscow with it ironically he recallsukraine a pool of talented artistes and skilled techniciansapart from its scenic locations ukraine is also known for its talented artistes and skilled technicians recalling his experience of special ops neeraj pandey shares they are such warm people and they had a very interesting industry going there lots of content was getting made over there we used their equipment manpower everything nothing was an issue so for us it was a huge blessing in disguise to work with a crew that was well versed in filmmaking and all the locations that we shot at youve seen in 15 it added to the visual strength of the series and it was a fantastic experiencea considerable indian population residing in ukraine also is an added advantage for indian shoots ukraine has more than 40000 indians that can be the extras they have terrific dancers extremely talented and beautiful ballet dancers actors there were about 50 members in the orchestra and another 300 ukrainian extras who were portrayed as british in the movie rrr and then there were a lot of technicians natarajan recalls his shoot schedulesthe present and future of shoots in ukrainethe russiaukraine conflict has already begun to have its impact on the local economy as well as global in the riskprone theatre of war around the ukraine and russia no film shoots can take place as the postsoviet ukraine wasnt the same the postwar ukraine will never be the same again already a eumember it might become a nato member and that could change the costbenefit equations for indian film production houses which again will have to begin their hunt for greener pastures to shoot romantic songs on romantic lands outside india a new set of strategies