High voltage action scenes performed by Vivek Oberoi in his big-budget directorial debut "Prince" are the film's USP, says Kookie Gulati. He is confident the movie will surprise audiences with its implausible action sequences shot with cutting-edge previz technology in South Africa, Thailand and India.

Gulati told IANS in an interview, "Previz is the short form of pre-visualization. It is an animated form of storyboard. I made this previz to show that all those seemingly impossible stunts done by Vivek were actually possible and this is the way one particular scene should be shot."

It has been reported that producer Kumar Taurani has invested over Rs. 40 crore in "Prince". In the two-hour-six-minute film there is one hour of action.

Kookie used animated storyboard - previz - to make his associates understand how he wanted the action sequence to be shot. The advantage of pre-visualization is that it allows directors to experiment with different staging and art direction options without having to incur the costs of actual production.

Gulati also said, "The first shot that we took was with 350 people, eight cameras across six buildings and Vivek on top of a building. We shot it in a day. If I hadn't done previz, it would have taken us six days easily because by the time everyone coordinates and understands what actually is happening and what we want to show, it would have been a mess. This previz was also required to convince people what I am actually trying to do. I had to do the storyboard first and then animators transformed it to a previz. We used it mostly for the action sequences." (With Inputs from Agencies)