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Jolie happy to be in India
Thursday,
November
16,
2006
Mumbai
(UNI):
Hollywood
actress
Angelina
Jolie
thanked
Indian
authorities
for
allowing
them
to
shoot
the
film
A
Mighty
Heart
in
Mumbai
and
Pune.
She
was
speaking
to
a
select
group
of
mediapersons
at
a
five-star
hotel
in
South
Mumbai
tonight.
She
said
she
was
delighted
to
be
in
India.
''I
am
very
happy
and
delighted
to
be
here
and
would
like
to
thank
the
Indian
authorities
for
their
support.''
She
said
she
had
been
avoiding
the
media
because
she
had
a
lot
of
work
to
do.
Talking about the film, Jolie said, ''This is an important film for us and we are trying to put in our best.'' She said she was ''loving her stay in Mumbai''. When asked about her ride on suburban train, she quipped, ''It was all fun.'' In reply to a question whether Brad Pitt and she were planning to adopt an Indian child, she categorically denied it. Besides Anjelina Jolie there were other crew members present at the media conference including Bollywood actor Irfan Khan. While referring to reports in media that he was denied visa, Khan said the visa was delayed but not denied and this delay led to cancellation of the shoot in Pakistan. Instead Pune was chosen as the location for the shoot as the landscape resembled that of Karachi and Islamabad where Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was beheaded. The movie was shot for five weeks at Pune before the crew came down to Mumbai to shoot the final sequence.
Angelina plays the wife of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002. Co-actor Dan Futterman plays the reporter in the film, which is being produced by Brad Pitt. The film is an adaptation of the book by the same name written by Pearl's wife Mariane. It covers Daniel Pearl's reason for being in Karachi and the complete story of his kidnapping, the efforts to find him and his eventual murder. It is also the life - affirming story of the love between Daniel and his wife, which emerges from the tragedy of the abduction. Pearl lived in Mumbai for seven years before he went to Karachi and was murdered in 2002.
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