When Angelina Jolie's new movie A Mighty Heart is released, we're going to be first in the queue to see it. Not because it looks especially good, but because we want to count all the pissed off Indians that've somehow made it to screen.
Because make no mistake about it, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – producer of A Mighty Heart – have annoyed all kinds of Indians during their stay in India to shoot scenes for their movie. But now, after the intense Indian kerfuffle of the last few weeks, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have upped and left India for good. Goodbyes like this are never easy, so India must be feeling the absence of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie especially severely right now, and clinging onto whatever meagre gifts they couple left – a half-used tin of brown facepaint and the screamed racial slurs of their bodyguards that still ring sadly in their ears.
Quite often when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt visit a country they do some good, like notifying Paris of just how cabbagey it smells or irritating Graham Norton a little bit. And on special occasions, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will go to a country like Namibia to give birth and see how many times they can get photographers arrested. But their trip to India hasn't been quite as fruitful.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie went to India to film scenes for the new Angelina Jolie movie A Mighty Heart, based on the memoirs of Mariane Pearl, the widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl. And, while their schedule did go partially to plan – Angelina Jolie got to inevitably window-shop some Indian orphans at one point – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie probably won't remember their time in India too fondly.
If people weren't getting their knickers in a twist over Angelina Jolie's big blacked-up face, then Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's entourage was drawing ire for other reasons – like the way that they choke photographers to the way that they knock boys off bikes with their cars to the way they clog up already-crammed commuter trains. The lowest point for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, though, came last week when three of Angelina Jolie's bodyguards were arrested for pushing around some parents outside a school and calling them "bloody Indians." Now, after some profuse apologising by the producers of A Mighty Heart, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have packed up and gone home, as China Daily reports:
After the over-a-month shoot for the film `A Mighty Heart' in Pune and this city that was marred by controversies involving their bodyguards, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and her partner and actor Brad Pitt left for home today. The duo with their three children left by an early morning flight, sources said here. Although the shooting of the movie would continue for some time now, Jolie's scenes had already been canned, the sources added.
Now the big question is this, now that they've annoyed all of India, which unsuspecting country will the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie roadshow hit next? It's assumed that it'll be Taiwan, since Angelina Jolie has been spotted wearing a big triangular hat and practising making her eyes all narrow in a mirror while her security team sit behind her reading a book called How To Call Taiwanese People A Bunch Of Wankers In Their Own Language and occasionally punching a picture of Ang Lee in the face.
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dark faith says
too much if you dont give people space to take a breath this happens
the medea in that country is bad
bhassi says
“dark faith Says:
November 21st, 2006 at 2:47 am
too much if you dont give people space to take a breath this happens
the medea in that country is bad”
Dear dark faith
the media you are blaming is not bad but free (as it should be in any democratic state)…and all that happened bad is not solely due to media, but due to attitude problem of jerks like Brad and overhyped (and undeservingly loved) Angelina. And as if that was not enough…..the assholes like you who might not ever be fortunate enough to be in india and know Indian roads begin flamming sitting in your air-conditioned cages…..try doing same somewhere in China or Pakistan or in Arabian countries…and I bet they will blow your ass. Don’t flame if you don’t know the reality…..fucking bastard.
moksh says
It will do Stuart Heritage a lot of good to know that India is a country which has a history of treating the guests like God. I have nothing against Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, though. But their entourage should realise that while in another country they should respect the sentiments of the locals and not act overly cocky!
And Stuart, to count the pissed off Indians you should rather come to India yourself, and do a head count here!
Alexander Hartley says
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are #1 as far as i am concerned, the media alway blows everything out of proportion.
I am very happy for their success as a couple and I hope they whether the storm in Hollywood. I feel people are people whether you are a star or not we all have flaws and make mistakes. I will continue to support Brad and Angelina and enjoy their films. Brad Pitt was just nominated for the upcoming People’s Choice Awards in the category of Favorite Leading Male. You can show your support by voting @ http://www.pcavote.com, I got to vote the day the nominations came out because I work with the People’s Choice Community.
Smilie says
Can’t blame them – being mobbed by the papparazzi is at least as uncomfortable as being knocked off a bike.
Indian says
There are papparazzis all over the world…..so when you reach France and get mobbed by paparrazis…do you call them “Bloody French” ???????…..NO…right ?
The bodyguarsd should have been arrested under Indian Penal Code and kept in Indian jails with so called “Bloody Indian criminals”…..
Man – —-> you are visitjng a country and calling its country men “Bloody Indians”……you think you alone have the guts…..days are not that far…when India will become economically the super powers and many Americans like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will beg Indian Film producers to get a chance to act in their films….
Believe me……Thanks !!