By:
Taran
Adarsh,
IndiaFM
Tuesday,
August
01,
2006
Films
have
used
unusual
locations
for
their
shoots,
but
this
one
takes
the
cake!
In
the
forthcoming
film
Lage
Raho
Munnabhai,
director
Raju
Hirani
needed
a
men's
loo
for
a
comic
scene
between
Sanjay
Dutt
and
Arshad
Warsi.
Says
Hirani
with
a
wide
grin
on
his
face,
"I
could've
easily
built
a
small
set,
but
I
thought
it's
better
to
actually
locate
a
nice
men's
loo."
And
so
the
Munnabhai
team
was
sent
scouring
through
the
entire
city
for
the
"perfect
loo".
Assistants
commented
on
how
funny
it
felt
clicking
pictures
of
various
loo's
and
dealing
with
the
weird
glances
of
people.
Laughs
Hirani,
"My
assistants
were
looked
upon
as
strange
people
with
a
strange
fetish
when
they
pulled
out
their
cameras
to
click
men's
urinals,
camodes
and
bathroom
tiles."
Finally,
after
a
long,
tiring
search,
a
snazzy
blue-n-white
tiled
loo
in
a
popular
suburban
Mall
was
The
Chosen
One.
Again,
the
shoot
in
the
loo
was
a
funny
and
novel
experience.
As
luck
would
have
it,
the
snazzy
loo
had
automatic
flush
sensors
for
every
urinal.
So
every
time
Sanju
and
Arshad
would
give
a
shot
and
pass
by
the
urinals,
the
flush
would
automatically
start.
Recalls
Hirani,
"At
one
point,
with
so
many
unit
members
inside
the
loo,
all
the
flush
sensors
went
berserk
and
starting
flushing
simultaneously.
We
actually
had
to
vacate
the
loo
briefly
to
stop
the
urinals
from
flushing!"