India — Anal Arasu Says “Raaka” Carries More Motion-Capture Work Than Anything He Has Choreographed

• Anal Arasu is the action choreographer on Allu Arjun and Atlee’s film “Raaka.”
• He says the film leans on motion capture more heavily than anything he has worked on.
• The production entered the Guinness World Records for its motion-capture work before the shoot wrapped.

Posted: October 21, 2026

Anal Arasu has put a number on where the action work on Raaka actually lives, and it is not on a stage. The film, directed by Atlee with Allu Arjun leading, went into the Guinness World Records for its use of motion capture before the shoot was even finished, and Arasu says the volume of mocap shots is the highest he has handled. His reference point is Jawan, where motion capture was used on Shah Rukh Khan’s body doubles; Raaka, he says, takes the same tool and runs it through the whole picture.

What that means on the floor is that a large share of the action is designed to be performed in a capture volume rather than to camera — characters Arasu describes as unique to the world of the film, some of them with supernatural abilities, which is the kind of brief that gets handed to performers in suits rather than to a conventional fight unit. He declined to detail the rigs or the sequences, on the grounds that spelling them out would spoil the thing.

Arasu has also put the scale of the job in comparative terms in the same round of interviews: a normal film is a hundred steps, Raaka is a thousand. The film has Deepika Padukone as the female lead, with Mrunal Thakur, Rashmika Mandanna and Janhvi Kapoor in significant roles, music by Sai Abhyankkar, and a release currently aimed at late 2027 or 2028.

Source: Deccan Chronicle — Action Choreographer Says Raaka Needs Mocap Shots The Most

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