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This weekend Orchard Street, between Rivington and Delancey, became a Bollywood set. Store owners were heard complaining to the police that it would "Disturb their business", but everyone else enjoyed the scene. The officers let the store owners know that they should file a complaint with the NYC film commission if they had a problem, though they clearly didn't realize the film set was bringing more foot traffic to their storefronts. Here are some photos, did anyone else come across the set?
From a passerby, "most Hindi films have at least some element of humor, but each scene they were filming was funny, leading me to believe it was, in fact, a comedy. They had a bunch of young Indian kids doing the "background action"; probably NYU students, but didn't confirm that."
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On the LES.
Don't be too hard on them about "in the LES". They don't really know NYC that well yet.
Wow, people from New Jersey and Long Island get criticized, but at least we get the lingo right. More and more everything is the NYC -region- rather than just Manhattan itself now that transplants have overrun the culture.
Funny. They had a bunch of Indian people filming at C-Town in Park Slope last week.
Don't be too hard on them about "in the LES". They don't really know NYC that well yet.
Most of them never will.
i digress, but I agree with comment #3. It's ironic to hear transplants complain about "Bridge and Tunnel" people or how they hate New Jersey yet they have lived here only 2 years and don't know anything about New York beyond the pronunciation of houston street.
remember when there was nothing BUT immigrants and transplants on the LES? yeah, keep criticizing and playing your "birthright" card.
My friend Shefali tells me that she has a secret crush (actually, not so secret now) on the actor in the first picture, Saif Ali Khan. Shefali would like to know: is the shoot continuing this week??
hey "real" new yorkers: is this grammatically correct now?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/movies/05dvd.html
They could have filmed that in our IT dept.
i think they were filming something on the brooklyn bridge on saturday too. that may not be part of this though.
I am amazed by the incredible ignorance and intolerance of some of you supposed New Yorkers.
I'm a NY'er born & bred. 44 years ago.
Lemme tell you how this city works, no matter where you're from: If you LOVE NYC, you RESPECT NYC, you CONTRIBUTE to NYC.....
THEN YOU'RE A NEW YORKER !
*UNLESS you do not speak English in which case you should GET THE HELL OUT and come back only once you can.
Why does this deserve a blog entry? There are plenty of tv and movie sets in NYC every day. I may be missing something here, but what the hell makes this taping so special?
geez louise, even the 'new yorker' boomers can't help telling us how it should be and blahblahblah.
but to meesalikeu's point, it really is "on". I don't know why this became a new yorker/non-new yorker thin, but it sounds stupid any other way, everyone says it that way. you grew up on the upper west side or the lower east side or the upper east side. you have an appointment on the upper west side. there are a handful of nice wood townhouses on the upper east side. blondie's sports bar has locations on the upper east side and on the upper west side. etc. blahblahblahblah...not hard. not a big deal, but "in" sounds weird.
Hilton, it deserves a blog entry 'cause it's a totally different type of film shoot; a foreign film! Bollywood is a bigger film industry than is Hollywood, and having a foreign film score a permit from the film commission -- and commandeer an entire block for an entire afternoon in hipster central -- seems like just the sort of shit Gothamist should be posting about.
"Bollywood is a bigger film industry than is Hollywood" ... bigger isn't always better. "foreign film score a permit from the film commission" ... the only thing odd about this is that a foreign film company wanting such a permit. In this case I suspect NYC is a site for a dance number.
True that, bigger isn't always better (and in this case, I certainly wouldn't argue that it is). But, bigger is often newsworthy. This fits the bill.
The guy in the first photo is Saif Ali Khan a very famous actor in the Hindi film industry. His mom is Sharmila Tagore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Tagore
Definitely wouldn't expect you hipsters to know anything about Hindi films. It's good to know there are some things you can't ruin!!
I would've loved to have seen this, if only to see how they shoot the big dance numbers. My all-time favorite movie of any country is Lagaan. I think it's also a good introduction to Bollywood, and the music is awesome.
to: "you know nothing"
someone else already ID'd the actor 10 comments earlier. you really should read what people aready said before mouthing off.
Yawn.
"Dil Chahta Hai" Starring Preity Zinta!
I love you, Preity Zinta.
In this scene, the two young lovers go to a movie, and when a silly dance sequence starts they end up recognizing themselves on the silver screen! Tee hee!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hjzlPtsS0R8
Also notable: the flick is interesting because it knowingly pokes fun at Bollywood conventions throughout the storyline. You can see a bit of that in this clip which gets surprisingly meta for Bollywood.
Meta. Aren't you impressed?
(PS if this shows up 2x, sorry, the first one didn't go)
Hey, some of us silly white hipsters do know something about Hindi films and can recognize Saif Ali Khan at first glance, thanks. Makes total sense why this was blogged—Bollywood filming in Europe and Australia has become pretty normal but here on the LES? Rock on! Now where's Preity?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hjzlPtsS0R8
Preity Zinta is in the movie but is not the actress in the song you linked. She was paired with Aamir Khan in Dil Chahta Hai, not Saif.
hi smileyface! I know who Preity is, obviously. By her dimples!
and I don't mean Dimple Kapadia hee hee.
But I do like that Dil Chahta Hai clip better than the other ones I found on youtube .
the actress in the theatre segment is Sonali Kulkarni