/> The sophisticated 3D equipment arrived for the shooting of Vikram Bhatt's Karisma Kapoor strarer Dangerous Ishq, and just in time. But disaster almost stuck when part of the equipment seemed inoperable.

It seems the first full-fledged day of Karisma Kapoor's shooting on Thursday almost didn't happen, all thanks to the ultra-sophisticated 3D equipment that director Vikram Bhatt has imported to shoot Karisma's comeback film Dangerous Ishq.

Apparently a part of the equipment turned out to be unusable. And Vikram nearly had to call off the first day's shooting.

Surprisingly Vikram doesn't deny there was a problem. "The 3D cameras and other equipment that we've imported to shoot Dangerous Ishq are not easy to handle. Equipment like that has never been used for any film in our country before. So it wasn't really a question of the equipment letting us down. It was more about us not being prepared to handle it. "

Vikram and his cinematographer-father Pravin Bhatt (who does the camerawork of all of Vikram's films) had to undergo a month of training to handle the 3D equipment from Toronto.

Beams Vikram proudly, "Both of us father and son have gone back to filmmaking school, so to speak. We had to unlearn much of technique that we have applied to our films so far, and learn new ways of doing things.

It's been a fascinating learning experience for both of us. And yes, there have been glitches, as always happens with new technology. But Karisma has been exceptionally patient and focused. It just doesn't seem she was away from the camera for so long. '

Dangerous Ishq goes into the Karisma's character's previous births.

Informs the director, "But we're first shooting all the contemporary portions wth Karisma. Because the past has to be shot in Rajasthan in the winter. We can't shoot in Rajasthan in summer. "

Not when Karisma intends to take her children along for the outdoor.