The Beirut army was taken for a ride when it mistook the shooting of 'Phantom' film as real rebellion and sent their fighter jets in the air over the sets. It was the first day of shooting which turned exciting for Saif and Katrina.

When the director Kabir Khan based a part of his film, Phantom, in Beirut and Syria, he was aware that shooting in these strife-torn locations would be a sensitive matter. And on the first day of shoot itself, his hunch came true as it turned out to be extremely dramatic for the entire unit of the film.

Getting permission to shoot at these places is not that difficult as one may think. It doesn't take more than a few weeks to get them, but to be on the safe side, the director had started the procedure six months before the shoot. "Interestingly, the infrastructure for film shoots here is surprisingly good as a lot of television commercials for the middle East are shot in Beirut, so the required equipment is easily available," said Khan.

The shooting was on a huge refugee camp created on the Syria- Lebanon border which was about about half-an-hour's drive from Lebanon. "There were about 400 locals dressed as rebel soldiers and a movement of about 25 trucks and jeeps for the sequence. Being a massive set-up it attracted a lot of attention," said the director.