Sunday, October 15, 2006

India has had it with Angelina Jolie

India has had it with Angelina Jolie

India first was charmed, but now Pune residents are growing a bit weary of the American super couple known as "Brangelina" who defaulted to shooting in Pune instead of Pakistan for safety reasons.


They can wrap this movie up anytime, "A Mighty Heart" is filming in India for one of the locations, and since the famous elusive couple has landed, it has been rough seas.

Since arriving in India last week, Angelina Jolie has been the indirect cause of a motorist involved hit-and-run accident, a paparazzi choking and a paparazzi slugout.

News media reports out of India are reporting the Indian police will be heightening security measures for the actress after a car in her convoy collided with a motorcycle Wednesday, causing minor injuries to the rider.

Nineteen-year-old Mittal Rawat told police the car sped away after hitting him in an effort to avoid a swarm of paparazzi.

Allegedly the actress was not among the passengers in the vehicle, which was carrying crew members from A Mighty Heart, police said.

Local production company Kailash Picture Company, which is managing the film's shooting schedule in India, said the collision was minor and had been "blown out of proportion," police have said they are "not taking this incident lightly."

"We have increased the security for Ms. Jolie to see that incidents like this do not happen again.," R.S. Khaire, a police officer in the western city of Pune, told Reuters.

A case has been filed against the driver of the vehicle and the number of officers accompanying Jolie on location will be increased, police said.

Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the bi-racial widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in the film being produced through Plan B production company.

On Friday, a freelance AP photographer said he was punched in the face and threatened at gunpoint by guards on the set of A Mighty Heart after he approached Jolie to give her his business card.

Earlier one of Jolie's bodyguards grabbed a paparazzo by the throat after he refused to lower his camera. The incident was captured on tape and broadcast by an Indian television station.

Source http://people.monstersandcritics.com/article_1211454.php/India_has_had_it_with_Angelina_Jolie

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