''Le Musk'' is a 2017 Indian

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film written, directed and co-produced by film composer

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. The film stars

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, Munirih Grace and Mariam Zohrabyan. A preview of ''Le Musk'' was shown 27 April 2017 at the ‘NAB’, Las Vegas in a room with multi-sensory 'Positron Voyager' VR motion platform. At

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, Rahman unveiled 'Scent of a song' from the film.

Plot

The film follows the journey of an orphaned Armenian child, full-time heiress and part-time musician, who grows up to be a diva on a mission. All through, she has one constant companion – the lingering Muskan scent. However, her life takes a dramatic turn when she receives an anonymous message, which brings back her mysterious past.

Cast

as Juliet *

* Munirih Grace * Mariam Zohrabyan * Edoardo Landolfi

Production

Development

In 2015,

was planning to create a theatre with projections all around and scent added to it, after being suggested by his wife Saira to make a film on perfumes. Three months later, someone gave Rahman a

gear which prompted him and his wife to make a virtual reality film based on perfumes. In order to blend the

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element in his film, Rahman got in touch with Grace Boyle, who is the founder director of Feelies, a London based company that has developed the technology to disperse scent during a film.

Filming

The entire film was shot in

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in a span of 13 days using a pair of Jaunt ONE cameras, with each of them being fitted with 24 camera sensors so as to capture 8K quality video.

References

External links

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