Nikhil Dwivedi, who plays a small town outlaw in Tamanchay, had to literally pay a price on the challenges of working in the realistic ‘rehearse and shoot' mode in the film. And in a lighter vein, to have a strict visual director, a first in Bollywood, truly didn’t help his cause either. Recently Nikhil and the cast of <em>Tamanchay</em> were in the picturesque town of Tehri Garhwal in Uttarakhand. And whilst shooting in the local Kulna market near Tehri Lake, Nikhil had to flick some bananas from the fruit vendor on the sly.

It was a rather lucky day for Nikhil Dwivedi recently, when not only did his shoot get saved from being cancelled in the nick of the time, that too in Delhi, it also got support from none other than both the President’s Office and the Delhi Police. Nikhil and the crew of his film Tamanchey were in the Indian capital to shoot an elaborate pre-climax scene with the lead pair Nikhil and leading lady Richa Chaddha at the sensitive Chandni Chowk.