The untimely demise of filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s mother on Saturday evening could have brought to a halt the shooting schedule of Mehra’s Run Milkha Run in Ladakh. Precious time that would have been hard to retrieve, were it not for Mehra’s leading man Farhan Akhtar who promised to keep the shooting going on uninterrupted in Mehra’s absence.

Shooting in Ladakh is not easy. Crew members of J P.Dutta’s LOC and Farhan Akhtar’s Lakshya fell ill complaining of breathlessness and suffocation caused by the vertiginous altitude on which the Ladakh region is located. During LOC two members of the crew actually lost their lives in Ladakh.

Aamir and Salman may come and go in the Yashraj banner. But Shah Rukh Khan is undoubtedly Yash Chopra’s blue-eyed boy. For proof, try this. The climax of the untitled Shah Rukh Khan-Katrina Kaif film was to be shot in Kashmir. It has now been shifted to Ladakh where Shah Rukh has shot earlier.