THE blackened shell of a burnt car lies in the yard of Radha Bai's farm in this bucolic village of whitewashed houses and unhurried bullock carts in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
The wealthy restaurateur was found beaten and strangled in the burnt-out shell of his car in a country lane in Hertfordshire in 1999.
Graves fought in France in 1915 at the Battle of Loos and on the Somme, and was reported dead at 21. On returning to England he suffered from shell shock; the noise of a car backfiring would send him to the ground.
To create the scene, the crew used two externally identical cars; one was drivable, and the other was a shell of car, and was hooked to a cable rig.
At the other end, in the paint shop, a sprayer dressed in a protective suit squirts a mist of colour inside the back door of a car shell.
There have been outrageous attempts at cheating – a competitor once went so far as make the shell of his car 10% smaller than the actual size – but offenders are dealt with swiftly.
"If he's rear-facing, his entire body is better supported by the shell of the car seat.
