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from NewKerela.Com, the people are really excited about the Jolie-Pitts coming to India :)

Pune agog ahead of Hollywood star couple’s visit

By Michael Gonsalves, Pune, Sep 23: The impending visit of top Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for a film shoot in this western Indian city has all the top hoteliers and apartment owners reserving rooms for the crew that is to stay several weeks.

The Hollywood heartthrobs will be here for a month from mid-October to shoot a movie based on American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed in Pakistan four years ago.

Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the slain journalist’s wife, who wrote the book ” A Mighty Heart”, on which the film is based. The star couple will be accompanied by their three kids - Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh-Nouvel.

Pune, scored over other locations for the shooting as the city’s landscape and ambience resembled between Karachi and Islamabad in Pakistan where Pearl was beheaded in cold blood.

Pune is the cultural capital of Maharashtra, the state in western India known more for the city of Mumbai - the land of Bollywood. It is the city where the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is located and is also an information technology hub.

According to well informed sources here, a team from Britain and Mumbai-based producer Kailashnath Surendranath and his wife Arti did bookings in a few hotels and service apartments in the city a month ago.

Amit Bhosale, director of Bhosale Constructions, a biggie in real estate is looking forward to the stars’ visit, as his bungalow could be one of the places the couple might shoot in.

“I am looking forward to the Hollywood stars’ visit. I don’t know where the couple will stay although a team came and saw our 30,000-sq-ft-bungalow,” Bhosale told IANS.

He did not rule out the possibility of the crew using the Abby’s Palace, his father Avinash Bhosale’s house, in Baner, an upmarket locality in the western part of the city for the film shoot. The lush green, picturesque land has a clubhouse, helipad and a hangar.

Bhosale said the team also visited another of his sprawling big bungalows called Jijai, named after the mother of Maratha King Shivaji at Bhosale Nagar area. “I really cannot wait to meet the duo,” he said, unable to control his excitement.

“I do not want to say anything at this moment please,” is all that Gauri Naiknavare, director of Naiknavare Builders, who own huge service apartments called Seasons in downtown Aundh area said.

However, sources confirmed that two floors with 18 spacious rooms have been booked for the technical crew of the film from Oct 6 for six weeks.

Although all of them are double rooms, the foreign crew will occupy one each only, the sources said, adding a large crew from Bollywood, who will also stay in the city, will assist in the shooting.

Gopan Krishnan, director (sales and marketing) of Hotel Le Meridien, a five-star hotel, said that over 100 rooms have been booked in all the big hotels in the city.

“We have booked five best suites for the film unit and three other rooms. They will be our very special guests. But we have no details who will be staying with us,” he said, adding that an array of Hollywood stars have enjoyed their hospitality in the past.

The Taj Blue Diamond hotel has also booked about 40 rooms for the film crew. Sources confirmed that Jolie and Pitt’s security manager had surveyed the hotel and then confirmed the bookings.

Residents feel the ’star visit’ will do wonders in improving Pune’s image.

“It is great for the city and the youngsters will have a ball,” Tripurari Sharan, director of FTII, told IANS. He added that many Hollywood stars have visited the sprawling lush green campus of the institute.

The visit has added more hype as the Jolie-Pitt starrer “Mr and Mrs Smith” was a box office hit across India raking in the moolah a year ago.

Model Vahbiz Dorabjee said she and her friends were excited about the stars touching down. “We are using all our contacts to get close to them. The city is really happening and I hope I get to shake hands with the cute Brad,” she added, giggling.

“All the guys and girls are going gaga. Everywhere the talk is about the Jolie-Pitt duo and the film. There is a kind of frenzy in the air and the excitement is palpable,” said city-based fashion choreographer Shekhar Sable.

Said Sonali Thatte, a senior manager with Vascon Engineers Pvt Ltd, a 20-year-old construction company: “I am excited about their stay in the city. The event will add more value to the city. The city has indeed become a hot destination for the film industry too. I hope I will get to see the duo at close range if not shake my hands with them as I am sure there will be some parties thrown for them in the city.”

— IANS

352 | Alexanderina | Thanks Alex for posting. I laugh at all the dillusional people who keep going on about B&A loosing fans and not being popular anymore. Yeah right….

Hi Everyone,
Lylian, what can I say? You are absolutely positively dead on. Where are the movie offers? I’ve always wondered if deep down they (JA and the Puppet Master Havuna) knew the woman has no staying power and that’s why they threw caution to the wind and went at it like they did. Doing four movies back to back…..who does that? Even Accomplished actors know better (did I just answer my own question). Going after BP and AJ the way they did in the VF piece…..seemed really desperate…….like a now or never type move. Unfortunetly, it seems to have backfired on them. JA has shown over and over again that she is only in for the good times….when things turn sour, she turns. Everytime I read the comments she made about the movies, I cringe. Who badmouths their own movies openly….while it’s still showing? “The worst experience of my life?” “it obviously was never fleshed out?”……why? Even if she didn’t like it, she should have kept her opinions to herself, other people’s livelihood was riding on it. Again it shows that things have to be about her…anyway, enough about her.

I hope you ladies have a wonderful day. As for me….well I have just two words - Dentist Appointment….’nuff said.

Later.

Love your posts Lylian.. very insightful.

#351 / Orignal Curious
Well said. The woman needs to re-inevent her self. Seriously, reinvention is not always a bad thing. It shows you’re a thinking person…..you look back on your life, take stock and see past mistakes. The first thing she should do is quit with the little girl persona. Honestly, that irks me…..the woman is 37 yrs old! Act it for goodness sakes, enough with the cutesy, bubble gum behavior. She needs to take a break from Hollywood, then come back with a bang! Of course we know it’s all wishful thinking….the woman is to scared to leave for fear of being forgotten.

#355 /Gigi
Please don’t see it like that….the blog is still good. PT will be the first to tell you nothing has changed. I wish I knew what else to say….I guess it will all come down to action and by that I mean seeing the regulars still posting.

Later….and I mean it this time (lol).

Okay - so where the heck are we congregating today? I’ve got to go out for a while later, but I’m just wondering which of these 4 threads people are posting on the most…cuz I’m not jumping all over the place…it’s too damned tiring!

Later….and I mean it this time (lol).

360 | African Girl ||

Good luck at the dentist!!

361 | creole |-No. It’s not to late. PT said that we just don’t take more requests at the moment. Just give the girls sometime to figure out how this whole thing works and I’m sure that you and others will be able to join soon. :)

366 | think positive

ok thank you, it’s very kind
i will wait , i understand ;

Morning Everyone!

370 | sisi |

Geesh, all that venom spewed just because of an innocent statement. You make a lot of accusations about another poster without one bit of evidence. But then why should anyone believe anything you say.. you too, are just a poster. Seems as if you or really upset that some truths about your idol may be becoming known.

370 | sisi - I shall not waste my breath on your ignorance. You have no idea who I am and what my morals are and I choose not to stoop to your level of idiocy - name calling and abusiveness.