“I think the resources could be developed together to make one very good film festival instead of two mediocre ones.”
A leafy boulevard in an Indian city stood in for a swish Pakistani neighborhood on Monday as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie began shooting for a film about a US journalist abducted and killed in Pakistan.
The film, A Mighty Heart, is the story of Daniel Pearl, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped in the Pakistani port city of Karachi and killed in 2002 while researching a report in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
It will be shot for a month in the western Indian industrial city of Pune as security concerns prevented filming in Pakistan.
On Monday, filming began in a two-story white bungalow in Pune's Sindh Society locality, which has a striking similarity to the district in Karachi — with its boulevards, row houses and bungalows — where Pearl was staying.
Cars painted yellow to resemble Karachi taxis were parked in front of the house and used for filming.
The Oscar-winning US actress plays the slain reporter's wife, Mariane. Her partner Brad Pitt is the movie's producer.
The celebrity couple's arrival in Pune has thrown the quiet Indian city into a frenzy as hundreds of fans throng their luxury hotel and the shooting locale for a glimpse.
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