/>It looks like the dream of shooting in the Valley would remain just that.

Bunty Wallia's unit of Lamhaa, hoping to create history by being the first unit to shoot an entire film in post-militancy Kashmir has been forced to revise its schedules after the happenings in Srinagar on Wednesday was severely affected when a mob of people challenged and gheraoed a sequence showing Bipasha Basu dressed as a Kashmiri and a group of women.

Bipasha Basu got the scare of her life on Wednesday when a mob of angry Kashmiris c stopped her shooting in Srinagar for Lamhaa and forced the actress to scamper for safety.

Says producer Bunty Walia, "It wasn't a pleasant experience for Bipasha to suddenly see a mob of locals descending on the unit."

Explaining the horrific series of circumstances on Wednesday Walia says, "We were shooting on the CRPF compound which was supposed to pass off as a street in Kashmir because there're a lot of Kashmiri-Pundits houses in the compound.

One sequence had a band of Kashmiri women led by Bipasha moving towards one of the houses in a van. When the local Kashmiri men saw so many women in Burqas they wanted to know what was happening. They got increasingly agitated."

To his horror Walia discovered the J & K police which had ensured the unit's full protection to be ineffectual. "We realized when it comes to mobs nothing works...not the J &K police, not the CRPF...We decided we had no choice but to quickly pack up for the day for the sake of the unit's security."

Says Walia, "I realized quite early in our schedule that shooting the entire film in Kashmir would be an impossibility. The minute the locals saw a 150-strong unit in Srinagar they got suspicious and excited. There have been recent film unit in Kashmir but none before Lamhaa in Srinagar-proper.

They're apprehensive about the guns. But the gun culture has been a part of Kashmir for years. I was not showing anything unreal. This is the real Kashmir. But unfortunately their reality in a film is not acceptable to the locals."

After Wednesday's disruption the director Rahul Dholakia hurriedly called a press conference in Srinagar for the local Kashmiris to explain Lamhaa wasn't projecting the Valley incorrectly.

Says Walia, "Rahul was very upset about Wednesday's disruption. He asked the locals not to become a mob"

Now Walia will be shooting 80 percent of the film on Film City in Mumbai.

Says Walia angrily. "Why did the J & K government promise us all co-operation and protection? I'm anxious and irritated.

I'm losing a lot of money because of the disruptions. I can't shoot beyond the 21 November. I don't have my stars' dates beyond that. The light starts fading at 4.30 pm. I'm working against all odds. We feel pushed against the wall."

Tragically barring a few crucial films, the rest of the film will now be shot on a set. "We've rescheduled. We'll shoot vital scenes with our stars as fast as possible and quickly move out of Kashmir.

My entire film was to be shot in Kashmir for a full 60 days. Now we can only shoot in Kashmir for 20 days. The rest of the film will now be shot on a set erected at Film City. The day the Amarnath agitation started in J & K I knew it'd impossible to shoot the entire film in J&K."

The set will be constructed by Wasiq Khan. "He's done other Kashmiri films like Tahaan, Yahaan, etc. We're shopping for Kashmiri artifacts and furniture right now. We hope to create an authentic Kashmir in Mumbai.

The administration in Kashmir was co-operative. The local people were hostile. They misinterpreted any thing we shoot.I'm not going to sit there and explain every shot and action to the mobs. Sadly I've to announce that the dream of Kashmir being a jannat for film units remains just a dream."