Irish Bollywood!!!

Last year all us Trinners (attendees of Trinity College Dublin) were informed that a big Bollywood blockbuster called 'Ek Tha Tiger' would be filming in Dublin, and that whole scenes and sequences would be filmed on our campus. I don't have a lot of experience with Bollywood movies, but any songs I've come across from that genre have always been a lot of fun to listen to and oddly beautiful in a way. So I was quite pleased that this was going on.

Here's a trailer for the film.

They blew up a Luas! How exciting is that?!

Quite action adventurey looking, isn't it? Needless to say I'm definitely gonna try to check this one out if it appears in cinemas in Dublin (which I'm fairly sure it will being that a chunk of it was filmed there).

As I traipsed around campus, panicked about enjoying my final year, I managed to catch a few glimpses of the filming, as well as spotting them a few times on Grafton St and other places. My clearest memory of it was thinking "God, she must be frozen", as I saw the beautiful lead actress walking around in a mini skirt and no tights. This is Ireland after all, so that poor woman is lucky to be alive after that. Tights save lives, people.

I was also in my music tech lecture as they filmed a song and dance number (which I later learned was entitled 'Banjaara'). The music dept in Trinity faces into the Front Square of the campus so we had a birds-eye view of what was going on, and yes, we all had a good look, lecturer included. We witnessed a mass gathering of students, faculty, bag-pipers (which is Scottish, not Irish but the way Bollywood fans), Kilkenny hurlers (my personal highlight), people in novelty Leprechaun hats, gardai and firemen.

I'm pleased to say that I've found 'Banjaara' in full on youtube so please do enjoy!

Trinty College Dublin, it's students and faculty in all their glory :)

I completely love this!

Thanks! 

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