When a Gamer's Dream Glitched Into Real Life: Inside Our Techno x GTA Film

Every kid who's ever picked up a controller has had the same fantasy: what if the open world on screen suddenly became the street outside your window? That's the question we chased with our latest film for Techno and now that it's out in the world, we wanted to pull back the curtain a little.

The story follows Techno, a streamer whose gaming account gets hacked mid-stream, pulling him into a very real, very Mumbai version of the missions he's only ever played. A mysterious mechanic, a shadowy fixer named Mr. M, a stolen F1 car, and a rooftop heist later Techno learns that courage and quick thinking matter a lot more than infinite respawns.

Visually, we leaned all the way into the GTA aesthetic: third-person camera follows, mission-style HUD overlays, wanted-level energy, and a soundtrack of honking taxis and local trains standing in for in-game ambience. The trick was making Mumbai itself feel like a level recognisable streets, real chaos, real charm so the line between "game" and "city" blurs just enough to be fun without losing what makes it ours.

Bringing it to life meant building Techno's RGB-lit gaming den from scratch, choreographing a rooftop cable-swing stunt sequence, and designing four distinct costume looks to track his transformation from streamer to reluctant hero all while keeping the tone squarely action-comedy, never taking itself too seriously. We shot across Mumbai's streets, a rooftop, a 44th-floor "Red Bull office," a supergarage, and a couple of practical homes chasing real locations that could double as in-game levels.

And here's the part most people won't guess: all of that the streets, the rooftop leap, the heist was shot in just 4 days. What you don't see on screen is the other 7 months, spent entirely in post, stitching together VFX, compositing the stunt work, and polishing every glitch and HUD overlay until the game-to-reality illusion actually held up. AI played a real part in that pipeline too from generating Techno's rapid-fire costume changes to enhancing live-action plates letting us punch well above a 4-day shoot.

Rohit Shetty needs a real budget, real cars, and real explosions to blow up half a street. We did it with 4 days, a rooftop, and a render farm and the cars are still in one piece.

This project has had us heads-down for the past three months, including a trip to our headquarters in London to align on the vision in person. None of it would have come together without the client and Techno himself going all in with us at every stage. Even at the pitch, we tested all kinds of AI variations before landing on the right look and once we committed, we built a dedicated AI lab just for this project, spending lakhs of rupees on AI tools for post and experimenting constantly as new models dropped almost daily.

Truth is, a good chunk of what looks like practical action is actually AI. The rooftop jump, the jet-ski chase, and several other "big" shots were never physically shot they were generated and refined entirely in our AI lab, then blended with the live footage so seamlessly you'd never know the difference.

As our director put it, this was never just about a heist it's a love letter to every Indian kid who grew up dreaming of living inside a video game.

The film is live now go watch Techno finally get his real-world side quest.

Credits:

Producers

Producer — Achal Gupt

Head of Production — Prithviraj Prabhakar

Executive Producer — Chaynika Roy

Associate Producer — Vinisha Mirchandani

Direction

Director — Ritvick Sharad

1st AD — Rohan Pawar

Director's Assistant — Adwait Sharad Phatak

AD - Costumes — Nithin Shreebhadri

AD - Art — Taniya Prakash

Camera Team

1st AC, Focus Puller — Siddharth - Sudhir Mishra

2nd Unit DOP — Crystelle Rita Nunes

Assistant Camera — Renuka Duraiswamy Mudaliar

1st Unit DOP — Prabhu Mohanty

Writer

Writer — Aditya Pardeshi

Production

Operations Lead (Production) — Dharmesh Jitendra Dedhia

Operation Supervisor — Akhil Ansari

Production Supervisor — Yogesh Manjrekar

Production Assistant — Aakash Mangesh Jadhav

Production Assistant — Aksh Patel

Production Support — Shivjee Sah

DIT Wrangler — Ketan Gurav

BTS Videographer — Shreevar Chhotaria

Production Assistant — Uday Gala

Associate Producer — Aditya Mathur

Post Production

Editor + Post Producer — Yash Shinde

Post-Producer + Supervisor — Chayanika Roy

Post Producer — Jesal Shah

VFX Supervisor — Mehuljeet Singh

AI Generalist — Bilal Palasara

AI Generalist — Mehuljeet Singh

Virtual Set Designer — Bilal Palasara

Virtual Set Designer — Shruti Kalingan

Colorist — Miheer Ranade

VFX & Online — Mehuljeet Singh

VFX & Online — Vivek Jadhav

VFX & Online — Satyam Raj Singh

VFX & Online — Bilal Palasara

Trailer Editor — Suraj Pal

Dub Co-ordinator — Jesal Shah

Post Supervisor — Jesal Shah

Voiceover Artists

Female Voiceover Artist (Glitch) — Christina Andrew

Male Voiceover Artist (Mr. M + NPC Characters) — Arjun Nair

Art Team

Production Designer — Preetesh Kushwaha

Art — Bharat Chawla

Art Assistant — Anusha Anil Tiwari

Art Assistant — Akshat Dubey

Art Assistant — Sonu Vishwakarma

Art Assistant — Abhimanyu Kumar

Art Assistant — Prithviraj Agashe

Costume Team

Costume Stylist — Heer Doshi

Costume Assistant — Juee Pande

Costume Intern — Bishnu Thapa

Hair and Makeup

HMU Head — Sunil Pardesh

HMU Assistant — Prashant Kailash Shaw

HMU Assistant — Pappu Yadhav

HMU Assistant — Vivek Gupta

Spot Team

Spot Head — Suryakanta Lenka

Spot — Dinesh Dixit

Spot — Arvind Singh

Spot — Umesh Kumar Bharti

Spot — Ramesh Mandal

Spot — Naresh Agre

Spot — Mukesh Rajbhar

Spot — Manojranjan Kumar Sharma

Drone

Drone Operator — Soorya / Mayur Patil

FPV — Pawan B S

Lighting Team

Gaffer — Rafiq Chaudhary

Light Assistant — Zakir Shaikh

Light Assistant — Sameer Shaikh

Light Assistant — Aakash Mandal

Light Assistant — Mithun Sarkar

Light Assistant — Bablu Baijnath

Light Assistant — Majid Shaikh

Light Assistant — Manual Shaikh

Light Assistant — Nurul Mulla

Light Assistant — Arshad

Light Assistant — Mohit Pandey

Light Assistant — Siraj Shaikh

Main Cast

Techno Gamerz — Ujjwal Chaurasia

Mr. M — Karim Hajee

Teja — Jahangir Khan

Aafat Mechanic — Ranvijay Jha

Oil Rig Guard — Pratap Verma

Casting Team

Casting Director — Jagdish Limbasiya

Casting Assistant — Rohit Singh Rajdan

Casting Assistant — Santosh Bhilare

Casting Assistant — Rajendra Panchal

Casting Director — Suraj Raikwar

Casting Assistant — Vikas Raj Verma

Extra Cast

Dabba Waala — Sailesh Jamani

Uncle — Biren Singh

Uncle — Bhushan Sharma

Punjabi Uncle — Harjeet Sindhu

Office Guy — Husain Rijvi

Office Guy — Rajeev Veshnao

Nerdy Guy — Prashan Gupta

Gym Guy — Rahul Jaiswal

Gym Lady — Dolly Gupta

Office Lady — Naziya Shaikh

Office Lady — Saroj Bhilare

Aunty — Manisha Kotak

Aunty — Chhaya Chaturvedi

Nerdy Girl — Harsha Madan

Uncle — Basheer Khan

Office Guy — Krishana Kumar

Aunty — Kejiya Disuza

Aunty — Afrin Khan

Office Lady — Asha Ram

Female Passerby — Sapna Rajbhar

Male Passerby — Sandeep Raj

Teja's Goons — Mohit Malhotra, Nishant Saraf, Bhavneet Gulati, Harshad Darzi, Krush Irani, Shubham Sharma, Kalpesh Panchal, Kishor Bhanushali, Dinesh Fogat, Hemant Malviya

Teja's Workers — Suraj Khoza, Akhil Kothari, Ujjawal Kumar, Dhanlaxmi Gosal, Beena Dubey

Juniors — Ravi Arora, Ankit Mukati, Prakash Banjara, Mohsin Ali, Trikant Sahu, Sahil Dubey, Tarang Rathi, Anmol Jain, Rahul Ojha, Shubham Tripathi

Male Bouncers — Vikash Yadav, Rohan Shah, Lalit Kala, Shrinath Goswami, Abhay Keshri, Lucky Lohariya, Kuldeep Rawat, Alok Raj

Tata Harrier Team

Mechanic — Aavesh

Mechanic — Pratik

Driver — Amit Valmiki

Driver — Vikas

Driver — Noor Khan

Technician — Asif Hashmi

Technician — Soham Sudhir Wadekar

Technician — Amey Sunil Kadake

Royal Enfield Team

Mechanic — Abhishek

Mechanic — Masroor

Mechanic — Seeraj

Stunt Team

Fight Master — Mukesh Rathod

Assistant — Farhan Ansari

Assistant — Ayaz Ansari

Stunt Double — Hrishikesh Mandke

Stunt Double — Sidesh Thakur

Location Managers

Location Manager — Dream Works (Alkesh "Tinkle")

Team — Pankaj

Team — Rudransh

Audit Team

Auditor — Uday Gala

Accounting Team

Chief Finance Officer — Abhilash Gupta

Accounts Lead — Chaman Singh

Accounts — Harshit Bhardwaj

Special Thanks

Kartik Chaurasia

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