“We were shooting in Ooty for the film and had a lot of night sequences that saw me waking up at night to sounds and walking into the forest. While the real location was a beautiful bungalow, the ambiance was cold, chilly, and dimly lit. This would make the surroundings eerie. I had to walk alone into the wilderness in the cold wearing a nighty,” she said, recalling how director Vikram Bhatt would attempt to scare her to elicit a reaction. “Vikram had a huge gong that he would unexpectedly ring to get the right reaction out of me. The first time he used it, I was absolutely caught unaware while walking in pin-drop silence. I shook and screamed loudly! He would use it at any point.”