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Shot in Bombay

LIZ MERMIN
USA, 2007, 99 minutes, Color, Digibeta

In the summer of 2006, filmmaker Apoorva Lakhia (Ek Ajnabee, Mission Istanbul) was eager to start working on his next production, Shootout at Lokhandwala, a star-studded action thriller based on a 1991 standoff between underground gangsters and a police anti-terrorism unit in Mumbai. But the production schedule was delayed by events in the life of one of the leading men. Bollywood heart-throb Sanjay Dutt was in a high-profile trial for possession of weapons linked to serial bomb attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 250 people. To complete the film on schedule, Lakhia and his crew had to adopt inventive measures. Shot in Bombay joins the filmmaking team on the last leg of shooting in January 2007, as they try to finish the film before their lead actor is sentenced.

Director Liz Mermin is a London-based filmmaker from New York. Some of her other films are Office Tigers (2006), The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2004) and On Hostile Ground (2001). As a freelance television-director/producer, Ms. Mermin has worked for PBS, ABC and Discovery, among others. She has two feature documentaries in development—one on Afghan pop-legend Ahmad Zahir and another on the mind of the horse.

In Hindi and English

Featuring: Sanjay Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachcham, Vivek Oberoi

Saturday, November 15 9:00 PM Phoenix Adlabs Theatres Union Station 9 $10.00