This is because of ample availability of cheaper local talent and other contingencies which involve fewer expenses. Usually, the choice of location remains close to Mumbai because of logistics but these days production houses are not shying away from distant places, including New Delhi and Jaipur, if the script demands. “We usually place an ad or sometimes browse property sites and dailies where owners advertised about their willingness to lease out their property for shooting,” says Kumar Menon, one of the aspiring art directors in the Malayalam film industry. Usually, art directors and assistants are responsible for searching for the suitable location for the scene. How to rent your home for shooting a television show? But now, no another producer is interested in using the same backdrop again. For example, a house in Thiruvananthapuram is known as Kumkumapoovu because the entire opera was shot there. Of late, producers insist on new locations as showing same home in more than one serial is boring and easily identifiable. Houses offering such views are always in demand.
There are times where they want a specific type of home which has a detailed background like Bandra Worli Sea link or Howrah Bridge or Qutub Minar. Usually, production controllers and art directors are in search of homes which have a good facade, parking area, furniture, kitchen and a large number of rooms.
