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| Mumbai. |
Friday 25 November 2011
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Tuesday 8 November 2011
The Game Hunters of Bhopal.
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| Dev, Dinesh, Prakash, and me. |
It all began with Raajneeti.
Massive convoys zipping across the many roads of the sleepy little city that suddenly woke up to a lot of chaos, a lot of screaming, lot of shouting, and a lot of madness….all the ingredients, that make a film shoot…well…a film shoot.
Initially, because of most of the cars in those convoys being those old, cult, white Ambassadors with that mandatory red beacon revolving on their heads, the whole hullaballoo was often mistaken for the Chief Minister’s convoy passing through their city. Only, these convoys were slightly more mad, slightly more loud, and of course, slightly more interesting to watch for the bystanders who soon began spotting one or the other of their favourite stars sitting inside those white Ambys.
Slowly, the fascination of the wonderful residents of Bhopal turned into awareness, and finally into habit.
By the time we shot Aarakshan there, the next year…that habit, of watching a few mad men lead or chase swerving, screeching, speeding vehicles on their city roads, had turned into boredom.
Yes, there were those few youngsters on their Pulsars and Bullets who, always keen to be in the same frame as Mr. Bachchan, Saif, or Deepika, (who they assumed must be inside one of the vehicles) would ride behind, or at times, even in between the camera and the actor’s car…only to be shooed away by all the mad men in the open jeep who screamed and shouted at them menacingly. But these Bollywood freaks aside, most of the city had been domesticated into ‘not looking at the camera’ when the legendary jeep passed them!
Here, I attach one of the many photographs of those mad men and their faithful jeep, returning after one such successful hunt.
What a jeep it was! And what a city!
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