Bollywood Moving Its Camp Out of USA
We Indians do like migrating a lot, don’t we? Bollywood moved from Switzerland to UK to Australia to USA, but now to where? This is because 50INR = 1 USD! So Bollywood is finding very expensive to shoot in USA!
In an increasingly cash-strapped industry, a 25% increase in the value of dollar has upset the calculations of many a producer, forcing many of them to rethink their plans.
So what is the solution? Will (majority of) Bollywood finally shoot the beautiful India? Or will they find another country?
Tags: Bollywood
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
They cud try Iraq, Darfur, East Timor for a change. ;)
Ha! Time for a change! Indeed.
I reckon, it would be either South Africa or Kiwi who would hit the jackpot. Am sure Tourism minister of both countries would be trying to sell their country to Bollywood!
But, it is good; it will force producers/writers to base their story in India rather than moving it to some country for no apparent reasons!
China!!!
China would not allow us to enter if they saw ‘Chandni Chowk To China’. Apparently most of the film was shot in Thailand. They created China Village in some Thailand studio. They could not shoot in China due to Olympic and high security reasons.
And apparently, the sequel of ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ is going to be ‘Chandni Chowk To Africa’!
Akshay Kumar reportedly said that the film was shot at the Great Wall, and that it was a rare feat as even MI didn’t get the permission to do so.
That said, the film sucked enough for me to avoid any further Chandni Chowk to XYZ. I had to watch Kung Fu Hustle again as an antidote ;-)
Indeed, the film was shot at the Great Wall, but that’s about it. The songs and action in Thailand. You can read a piece on it here
i haven’t seen the film and ain’t gona watch it. :-D
Given the mega budgets that some Bollywood films have, its unlikely that they’re going to shy away from shooting in the U.S.
should explore south America, and Africa.. except dhoom2 i dont remember any other movie which was shot in south America… not counting songs shot..
i liked the way RGV’s Company used Kenya as a strong character..
maybe time to start exploring India, its small towns and villages for a change. Where are our Coen Brothers, who can explore the quirky nature of small town India?
We really need movies, that capture small town India more. Not schlock fests like Suraj Barjatya’s Vivaah, which presents an idealized small town, that exists only in his imagination.
We had those wonderful movies like Chameli ki Shaadi, that captured the small town India in a realistic, witty, humorous manner, kahan hai aise directors?
RGV did use locations as characters in Company, I suppose. Not many Indian directors do that. Kenya? That was an untypical location for Bollywood. But, Bollywood has been to Kenya before, remember Vishwatma? (Ajjgar)
every human being feels the pain of loosing much then expected. bollywood producers are not an exception to this situation. they are doing the right think and at a very right time.
I think directors should just shoot their movies in India (unless of course the story is actually set elsewhere).
In terms of visuals, I think the most beautiful movies have been Mani Ratnam’s, who I have heard only shoots in India.
No country for Bollywood.
I think we should go to Antartica. Imagine those rang birangi dancers and white glaciers doing Tohfa Tohfa …Laaya Laaya…
I know thoda greenhouse effect hoga. Who knows fullhouse effect may happen too.
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Akki Kinng will be a Penguin warrior in peechla janam and the other AK will play the role of 8-pack penguin. Of course, SRK will be the eternal lover Penguin. With AB doing the voiceover, we can call it “The Farce of Penguins – Ek amar prem katha”