Bollywood 2

Text: Are you available for another day on a Bollywood movie - business people wanted.

I dragged out my old faithful suit (which I have since decided doesn't suit me at all...don't wear wide leg trousers if under 5'4"). 

The shoot was to be in E14, call time of 8am. As usual I arrived early so had a great fry up breakfast before filming began. We were travelled (walked) from unit base location (Canary Wharf). As we walked along I was tapped on my shoulder by a man who said,

"You don't remember me, do you?" Well, seeing as I have the worst memory for names (give me a script to remember any day but not names!!) and most people know this I had to declare that no, I didn't remember him at all. As it turned out I was on a shoot for a Commercial earlier on in the year with him. I had given him several agencies to try and contact. I do try to help people find agencies / work as when I started I wasted a lot of time trying to sort out the good agencies from the bad ones. In these days of recession why  spend time researching when you could be working?

Anyway, off we went to Canary Wharf where about six of us were not used. We sat outside a bar - luckily it wasn't cold - the sun was shining and we were still there chatting away until lunch time!  Sadly, we weren't allowed to have the delicious smelling curries that were reserved for main cast but our meal was decent enough so I wasn't complaining!

After lunch we returned to Canary Wharf where it was just a matter of standing around in different places. It's always interesting being put with different people and on this occasion one person stood out as they had nothing to talk about but themselves.....not only that but how successful they were. It makes me laugh when you get  people like that - if they are that successful then why are they a Supporting Artist on a Bollywood movie? 

Anyway, I digress....after we had been outside for about an hour we suddenly realised that there was an awful lot of people with cameras all flashing away at the main actors. Word must have gotten out very quickly and what seemed like coach loads of people started arriving. Eventually there was just a bank of people all with cameras all excitedly chatting away whilst the poor Director tried in vain to film the bits he wanted. In the end we were used as blockers to block the fans from taking pictures. What happened in the end was they incorporated the fans into the film as it was the only way of getting it done.  Of course it wasn't long after that when the infamous words went round "Its a wrap!" This was great news for some of us that were working the next day on a double shift as Business Executives from 8am until 2AM!!