“Earlier, you could almost discount VFX and still have a complete film. But now, it has become a fundamental part of storytelling,” says Arpan Gaglani, co-Founder and Managing Director of one of the industry’s prominent VFX and animation studios, philmCGI. They have worked on several major films and series, most recently on both parts of Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar. When asked to explain, what the job of a VFX supervisor essentially entails, he tells in an exclusive chat with SCREEN: “What we bring to the table are elements that aren’t visible on set, things that don’t even exist in the real world. We create them, enabling the director’s vision, helping them to build entirely new worlds. Whether it’s something like say a Pandora in Avatar, or recreating a specific era, like the world we built for Jubilee, VFX plays a much larger role in the overall filmmaking process. Not only there but also in daily soaps, advertisements, we play an integral part to assist the process and get what isn’t possible on a live set.”  Budget …