Indians love the West and we invariably end up referring to their culture or places for comparisons.
Bollywood movies are a great example to substantiate this fact. Several of our movies have been shot in beautiful foreign locations, from Switzerland to Costa Rica and beyond. Sure we love watching foreign
locations in Indian films, but the thrill of seeing an Indian location in a foreign film is unparalleled,
And so it only seems fair to look at some of the biggest Hollywood movies that were shot, and at least partly set in India.
so In this video, we’ll go over,
Top 10 Hollywood Movies That Had Scenes Filmed In India.
A Mighty Heart.
it is a 2007 drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom, which is a detailed account of the search for kidnapped Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. It was filmed primarily in India and France, during the summer and fall of 2006.
Fearing for the safety of star Angelina Jolie and the rest of the cast and crew, the vast majority of the film, set in Karachi, was filmed in Pune, India. this film performed poorly at the box office, only earning total revenue of 18 million dollars, compared to its production budget of 16 million Dollars.
The Darjeeling Limited.
It is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson. The film stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Schwartzman, as three estranged brothers who agree to meet in India, a year after their father’s funeral for a “spiritual journey” aboard a luxury train. Much of the film was shot in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. The Himalaya scenes were shot in Udaipur, and the opening scene of the film was also shot on the streets of Jodhpur. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics and earned 35 million dollars on a 17 million dollar budget.
Jobs.
Jobs is a 2013 American biographical drama film, based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College, to the introduction of the iPod in 2001.
In August 2012, production moved to New Delhi and Vrindavan, in order to provide the setting for Jobs’ 1974 trek to India. Locations include “Delhi’s Jama Masjid, the Hauz Khas Complex, Safdarjung Tomb, and Humayun’s Tomb. It had a worldwide gross of 42 million Dollars, against its 12 million Dollars budget, making the film a modest box office success.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
it is a comedy-drama film that starred every well-known British actor, as well as starring Dev Patel and Preeti Desai takes us through the lives of a bunch of retired people, who travel to India in their sunset years. Most of the filming took place in the Indian state of Rajasthan, including the cities of Jaipur and Udaipur. In Jaipur, filming took place around the City Palace, the Marigold market, and on crowded buses. The movie was produced by Participant Media and Blueprint Pictures, on a budget of 10 million Dollars. It became a surprise box-office hit following its international release, eventually grossing nearly 137 million Dollars worldwide.
Eat Pray Love.
Eat Pray Love is a 2010 American biographical romantic drama film. Based on the book by the same name, Eat Pray Love featured Julia Roberts’
character Elizabeth Gilbert traveling across many countries. In search of enlightenment, she ends up in an ashram in India. It was filmed at
Hari Mandir Ashram in Pataudi, Haryana. It received mixed reviews from critics, but was a financial success, grossing 205 million Dollars worldwide, against a 60 million dollar budget.
Slumdog Millionaire.
it is a 2008 India based British drama film, that is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author Vikas Swarup, telling the story of 18-year-old
Jamal Malik, from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. the film was shot in DHARAVI, Mumbai. which is considered the largest slum in Asia, with close to a million people living in one square mile. The film was projected to cost 15 million Dollars. Worldwide, the film has currently grossed over 377 million Dollars.
Life of Pi.
The story involves the 227 days, that its teenage hero spends drifting across the Pacific in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. They find themselves in the same boat after an amusing, and colorful prologue, which in itself could have been enlarged into an exciting family film. The Guardian’s photo gallery
of locations in Pondicherry, India, used in Ang Lee’s, Life of Pi. Among the settings used for the film, gorgeously shot by cinematographer Claudio Miranda are the Botanical Gardens, which were transformed into Pi’s family’s zoo, the Pondicherry pier, on which Pi and his love share a melancholy farewell. the
movie earned over 609 million dollars worldwide, against its 120 million dollars budget.
Mission Impossible 4.
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol is a 2011 American action spy film, directed by Brad Bird. In the film, Hunt and his team race against time to find a nuclear extremist,
who gains access to Russian nuclear launch codes when a mission by Hunt’s team goes wrong, resulting in the bombing of the Kremlin. A brief shot of the Gateway of India sets up Mumbai. Overlooking the Arabian Sea in the Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai. However, there’s little more of Mumbai on display. the film went on to become the highest-grossing film in the series, with 694 million Dollars, against its 140 million dollar budget.
The Dark Knight Rises.
The Dark Knight Rises leaves the fanciful early days of the superhero genre far behind and moves into a doom-shrouded, apocalyptic future that seems uncomfortably close to today’s headlines. As urban terrorism and class warfare envelop Gotham, and its infrastructure is ripped apart, Bruce Wayne emerges reluctantly from years of seclusion in Wayne
Manor, and faces a soulless villain as powerful as he is. The subterranean prison in which Wayne is held captive was built at Cardington in the UK, but on finally escaping, he finds himself in front of the spectacular Mehrangarh Fort, a vast 15th century Hindu fort, crowning a perpendicular cliff, four hundred feet above the skyline of Jodhpur. The film grossed over 1 billion dollars worldwide, against its 250 to 300 million Dollars budget.
Tenet.
Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action-thriller film, written and directed by Christopher Nolan. A secret agent is given a single word as his weapon and sent to prevent the onset of World War III. He must travel through time, and bend the laws of nature in order to be successful in his mission. A five-day shoot occurred in Mumbai. in the movie scene, the protagonist meets up with his rather louche contact, Neil, in the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a private club at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Marg, near the famous Gateway of India, Colaba. It was the first Hollywood tent-pole, to open in theaters after the pandemic shutdown, and grossed $363 million dollars worldwide, against its 200 million dollars budget. making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020. However, the movie is still earning.
