Brangelina crew sees inequality in India

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PUNE: In the upmarket Sindh Colony here, which is the location for shooting of Hollywood film A Mighty Heart, the distinction between Indians engaged for different work and those from abroad is clear.
Three bungalows have been hired in Sindh Colony by the film's unit for the shooting of the picture being directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Angelina Jolie in the role of Marian, wife of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl, and Dan Futterman as Daniel.
'Nayansukh Bungalow no 223' is where the film is being shot since Monday. The other bungalows are being used for make-up and for serving dinner to those engaged in the film-making.
A huge pandal has been put on the first floor terrace of one bungalow where the foreign crew members are served food.
"Though no one has said in as many words, the food at the pandal is only to be served for the foreign crew members. The Indians engaged for different purposes are to have their food at the ground floor," a contractual employee said.
"I don't know the reason for this. May be, this could be because we have lots of spice in our food and the foreigners avoid too much of salt and spice," he said.
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Meanwhile, the uniformed waiters from Foodkraft Caterers, the pandal and the accompanying activity at the location site give it a look of a marriage place.
No one has the time to answer a query and unknown faces like the Iranian and Indian students, who had come to watch the shooting of the film, are brusquely pushed away by the security personnel.
At the third bungalow (for make up of artistes) at the end of a road on the opposite side of the one being used to serve food to the film unit members, things give a different picture.
There is a white van with 'Capital City Police' written on it and two yellow taxis standing inside the parking lot. A foreign woman pedals along from the one of the two other bungalows and greets two persons who are dressed up in "salwar kameez."
The shooting has been fixed between 1900 hours and would continue in the wee hours of tomorrow, another contractual employee said.