Click to play videoNew York: Bollywood's love affair with foreign locales starts and ends most of the times with New York. The most populous city in the United States has been the background of Bollywood's popular candy-floss romances, like Kal Ho Ha, Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna and Jaan-e-Man all been extensively set in the city that never sleeps.
But if you ask some of the movie lovers in New York, whether Bollywood appeals the hip Starbucks drinking crowd—they say, it's just not their cup of tea.
They say our films often go a overboard in depicting the real city life. So if you remember Preity Zinta in Kal Ho Na Ho who is shows living in the Queens and then going all the way to Manhattan for her daily jog—anybody would easily tell it’s a logistical nightmare.
“Shah Rukh is shown getting in a Septa line (train) to go from Toronto to New York. Septa line is a suburban train in Philadelphia. Everyone knows that. This just doesn’t work,” said New York resident Ryan Michigan.
“Clearly whosoever makes these movies watches lots of Sex and the City,” says another resident Soman Chainani.
So while directors continue with their song and dance routine in unlikely places like Columbia University, they perhaps would well listen to a word of advice from resident New Yorkers
“There are lots of places in India which quite looks like New York. Run down cities like Bombay or Bangalore and take pictures there. That’s true New York,” says New York resident Romilla Karnati.
“One word of advice for the Bollywood filmmakers. Don't shoot on the coldest day of the year in this place. Actresses who dance in little sarees really suffer,” said Ryan Michigan.
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