Hollywood crew heckled in Gujarat for 'showing India in bad light'

It was high drama at Ahmedabad airport as rickshaw drivers stopped the shooting of Hollywood film 'American Gandhi' outside the domestic arrival terminal. Eyewitnesses at the airport said that if the film crew at Ahmedabad airport had not left the campus then the gathered crowd would have in all possibility damaged their expensive equipment.

"At around 12.15 pm, the crew members started setting up their equipment outside the terminal. As the director started briefing the actors about the scene, curious crowd had already started gathering around. But as soon as the cameras started rolling a few people from the crowd started shouting saying 'yeh galat kar rahe ho, band karo' and the reel life action turned real," said a private airline official.

 The protest was led by Bharat Singh, who took rickshaw drivers in confidence, and asked the director to stop the shooting. Singh in his application to Sardarnagar police station has said that such film tarnishes the image of India. Sardarnagar police station officials said that they have accepted Singh's application and at the same time asked him to move court if he has any objections against the film's content. Full story...

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