<P> New to acting, the children often made errors such as staring into the camera, and Khan resorted to unorthodox methods to work around their rookie mistakes . For example, an early scene in the film featured a school assembly; Khan wanted the students to act naturally and to ignore the principal's speech, but recognised that this would be a difficult feat with cameras present . First Assistant Director Sunil Pandey spoke continuously in an attempt to "bore the hell out of (them)", and they eventually lost interest in the filming and behaved normally . A later scene involved Nikumbh enlightening his class about famous people who suffer from dyslexia, and the children's responses to his speech were the last portion to be filmed . Having already spent 3--4 days hearing the dialogue the children's reactions were "jaded". Khan opted to film them while he recited a tale, and manipulated his storytelling to achieve the varying spontaneous reactions . The following scene had the children playing around a nearby pond . Horrified when he learned that the water was 15 feet (4.6 m) deep, Khan recruited four lifeguards in case a child fell in . </P> <P> Khan found it important that the audience connect the film to real children, and had Pandey travel throughout India filming documentary - style footage of children from all walks of life . Those visuals were integrated into the end credits . </P> <P> While claymation has been used in Indian television commercials, the film's title sequence--a representation of Ishaan's imagination--marked its first instance in a Bollywood film . Khan gave claymation artist Dhimant Vyas free rein over the various elements . The storyboarding took one and a half months and the shooting required 15 days . The "3 into 9" sequence, in which Ishaan delves into his imagination to solve a math problem, was originally conceived as a 3D animation . Halfway through its creation, however, Khan felt it was not turning out as he had envisioned it . Khan scrapped the project and hired Vaibhav Kumaresh, who hand - drew the scene as a 2D animation . </P> <P> Artist Samir Mondal composed Ishaan and Nikumbh's art - fair watercolour paintings . He held a workshop with the schoolchildren, and incorporated elements from their artwork into Ishaan's . Mondal also instructed Khan on a painter's typical mannerisms and movements . Gupte created the rest of Ishaan's artwork and Assistant Art Director Veer Nanavati drew Ishaan's flipbook . The art department's designs for Ishaan's school notebooks disappointed Khan, who had familiarised himself with dyslexic writing . Using his left hand, Khan instead wrote it himself . </P>

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