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Julia Roberts has Indian-Americans worried

Sify Movies Desk | Monday, 10 August , 2009, 11:01

Oscar winning actress Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) will reportedly be in India in the third week of September to shoot Eat, Pray, Love, and Hindus in the US are not too happy about it. Many are concerned about the authenticity of the depiction of the ashram and Hinduism in the film. Indian American Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA), said that Hinduism and its belief system were quite often misunderstood and incorrectly depicted outside India and urged the filmmakers to stick to authentic traditions. Based on Pushcart Prize winner Elizabeth Gilbert's spirituality/travel memoir, the film is currently being shot in New York till the end of August. After a two-week stint in Italy, shooting will move to India to film ashram sequences. Some of the Indian crew of Slumdog Millionaire will be helping in the India part of the production, though the shooting schedule is being kept hush-hush, according to reports. In the book, Gilbert writes about coming to India to learn the "art of devotion". A critic has defined her depiction of the spiritual four-month quest as "the worst in Western fetishisation of Eastern thought and culture". Indians are anxious to see how perfectly Roberts does her job of cleaning ashram floors as a part of her devotional duty, reciting 182-verse Sanskrit chants, and going through gruelling hours of meditation while being feasted on by mosquitoes. Oscar nominated Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) and Oscar nominated Viola Davis (Doubt) will also reportedly be in India for the shooting. The rest of the cast includes Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Paris Film Festival award winner Billy Crudup (Almost Famous), Golden Globe winner James Franco (Pineapple Express) and Luca Argentero (Lezioni di cioccolato). Filmmakers are yet to select the actress to play 17-year old tomboy Indian girl Tulsi, who will be on the ashram floor-scrubbing crew interacting with Roberts, and who is equally devoted to God and hip-hop music. Directed by Emmy nominated Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck) and produced by Columbia Pictures, Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Roberts' Red Om Films, it is aimed at a release in 2011. Gilbert's bestseller memoir Eat, Pray, Love is about her self-discovery and soul-searching after her nasty divorce—exploring India, Italy, and Indonesia, a journey which is pleasurable as well as enlightening. It was number one on the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction List for over a year and reportedly has over five million copies in print. She has also authored a short story collection Pilgrims. According to reports, Gilbert's former husband is also writing his own memoir of world travel titled as Displaced.has also authored a short story collection Pilgrims.

According to reports, Gilbert's former husband is also writing his own memoir of world travel titled as Displaced.

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Posted: 16 years ago

one more movie abt hindu culture. i am actually very apprehensive about the interpretations by these people of hinduism. they have got very weird notions about hindus.