Archives for September 2009

She's the star of Pretty Woman. She won an Oscar. She's very, very famous. Hurry! I have to see her today,"

I told Mishra, my inimitable Delhi-born taxi-wallah, as we sped down the National Highway 8, with the shimmering glass skyline of corporate Gurgaon, in Haryana.

In the rear-view mirror and dusty, rural India in front of us. "Pretty woman. Hmm. You want a pretty woman, sir? I can arrange this," he dutifully informed me. "Nepali, Indian, gori."

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Indian media has apparently been cribbing about not having an access to Hollywood actress Julia Roberts, who is here to shoot for her film ‘Eat, Pray, Love’, because of her hard to crack security shell.

But recently, at an event in a hotel, Julia was spotted moving about with minimal security, while Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who had also come for the event, could be seen with her entire security entourage.

Not just Aishwarya, the event was also graced by Bollywood hotties Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone among others.

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No air-conditioner and no aides hovering nearby for her commands. Hollywood star Julia Roberts seems to have immersed herself in the spiritual atmosphere of the ashram where she is shooting for Eat Pray Love with not one starry tantrum in the week she has been here.

The Oscar winner's grounded behaviour was visible to all when she preferred to walk up to her car - a black, bullet proof Toyota Fortuner - waiting for her outside the Ashram Hari Mandir premises, instead of having it called inside. She is shooting at Pataudi, an hour's drive from the Indian capital.

"Julia always likes to walk till her car, rather than making the driver bring it inside for her convenience. When she is ready to leave the sets for the Pataudi Palace, she asks the production people to inform the driver to be ready," a unit source told IANS on condition of anonymity.

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That Julia Roberts is shooting for Ryan Murphy’s Eat, Pray, Love in Pataudi, everybody knows.  What nobody is aware of is that the Hollywood superstar met up with the Begum of Pataudi, Sharmila Tagore, and expressed the desire to meet actor Saif Ali Khan and his girlfriend Kareena Kapoor.

Julia was particularly keen to meet Kareena when she learned that Bebo will be playing her part in Karan Johar’s Hindi adaptation of the Hollywood hit Step-Mom. kareena kapoor is currently prepping to shoot a romantic song with Aamir Khan for Raj Kumar Hirani’s Three Idiots at a Mumbai studio.

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After relishing spicy Indian curries and trying her hands at cooking 'Dal' 'Roti', Hollywood actress Julia Roberts now wants to sample some native sweets.

The Oscar-winner, who is in India to shoot for 'Eat, Pray, Love', has turned to her film's unit, which consists of people from Mumbai for advice on famous sweets of the country.

And the unit members have told the actress to savour sweets from different states across the country. "The unit people discussed with her various sweets which are famous by state.

They want her to taste 'Kaithal ka Ghewar' and 'Jhansi ke pede' among other delicacies," a source told PTI. Roberts, who landed in the national capital on September 17, drove straight to Pataudi, about 60kms from here and is staying at the Pataudi Palace hotel.

Julia Roberts, the Hollywood actress, has angered Hindu villagers in India who were barred from celebrating one of their most important religious festivals while she shot scenes for her new film in their temple.

Villagers hoping to celebrate the beginning of Navratras at Ashram Hari Mandir, a temple about 30 miles from Delhi, found it closed by Roberts's security team which included 350 guards, bulletproof cars and a helicopter.

Roberts was there to film Eat, Pray, Love, in which she portrays a woman hoping to find herself in food, meditation and love."We were not allowed to enter and pray in the morning by the security," said Shakuntala Devi, a devotee who tried to enter the temple.

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Hollywood actor Julia Roberts, who won an Academy Award for her role in “Erin Brockovich,” is now in India to shoot for her new movie “Eat, Pray, Love,” which is based on author Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoirs of the same name.

The actor arrived here with her children on Thursday after completing a shooting stint in Italy for the film.

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Hollywood heartthrob Julia Roberts is in India to shoot for a part of her forthcoming film ‘Eat, Pray, Love.’

She is putting up with her children Hazel and Phinnaeus and two-year-old son Henry at the Pataudi Palace hotel in Gurgaon. 

Forty one year old Julia Fiona Roberts is leading American actress. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring.

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It’s time to say cheers as Hollywood’s pretty woman Julia Roberts is in the capital for ‘Eat, Pray and Love’, which is the name of her forthcoming film.

As she arrived in India for a shoot, the lissome actress could be seen being accompanied by her gorgeous twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, on her Indian sojourn.

The stunner arrived in Delhi on Thursday morning causing much stir at the IGI airport. As per insiders, Julia, and the cast of the film - Billy Crudup, Javier Bardem and Richard Jenkins, will be here till the first week of October; that’s when the India leg of their filming schedule gets over.

Based on the novel by the same name, the film has an extensive segment of India shoot. But catching a glimpse of Julia is going to be one tough task as the crew has kept their itinerary a top secret.

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ROME. U.S. actress Julia Roberts went to Naples to shoot the final scenes of the movie Eat, Pray, Love and even the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, ceased trading on his arrival, reported the daily La Repubblica yesterday. Thanks to the efforts of the committee Campania Film Commission and hundreds of guards and policemen, during the day there were no incidents related to organized crime or thefts, and only continued the sale of smuggled cigarettes.

The city, in southern Italy and often occupying the pages of newspapers for such events, is the scene of some of the new American film stars Roberts. The Neapolitan alleys Forcella neighborhood began living his dream film at four in the morning, when they reached the 70 trucks running technicians and settled in the area of the courthouse Castelcapuano to mount two sets.

She arrived shortly afterwards and was acclaimed by the crowd that attended the scene to see. The protagonist of the film, Elizabeth, played by Roberts, makes a trip to Italy during which he visited Naples, where he begins to rediscover the meaning of life.

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