The pavements where the murders took place were made of black tar unlike the multi-colored jigsaw shaped tiles of the time of release of this film. For the wide shots of pavements, the unit often had to cover half a kilometer of pavement with black tarpaulin sheets to achieve the look of a tar footpath.
The unit often waited until late night before rolling the camera since they needed all modern vehicles off the roads. Often some vehicles remained parked on the road and had to be covered by black tarpaulins.
The neon hoardings and contemporary advertisements were hidden by 1980s style advertisements and film posters that were sourced out painstakingly by the art director from obscure scrap dealing shops.
The telephones on fixed line and public phones were carefully picked to resemble 80's models.
Manish Gupta went to the Times of India office to find articles related to the Stoneman case . The Times office took few weeks to find the newspapers related to the cases in the year 1983.Thus he also got hold of genuine newspaper clippings of 1983 which were shown in opening credits of the film.
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