After giving Bollywood formidable cop heroes in Bajirao Singham and Sangram Bhalerao aka Simmba, filmmaker Rohit Shetty has gone bigger and better with his next, Sooryavanshi. The cop thriller sees Akshay Kumar at the helm of affairs as Anti-Terrorist squad chief DCP Veer Sooryavanshi.

While Shetty has been vocal about how he loves shooting in Goa — he had set the stories of both Singham and Simmba in the state — the script of Sooryavanshi required him to film extensively in Mumbai. No stranger to the woes of shooting at live locations, the director says Mumbai police made it possible to film at landmark venues like the Lower Parel flyover and the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.