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Wednesday February 23, 2005

Brosnan in Bombay

FORMER James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan said Monday he would be shooting in India for his forthcoming movie.

“It’s a project that will be shot in L.A., then London and Bombay,” Brosnan said, but didn’t give any details.

Brosnan, 51, was on a short visit to Bombay, India’s financial and entertainment capital, to promote an international watch brand.

He also told reporters that Hollywood and Bollywood, India’s movie world, were forging new ties.

“The cross-pollination between Hollywood and Bollywood is getting closer,” he said.

India, with its crowded cities and exotic locales, is gradually finding a place in Hollywood movies.

Last year’s action thriller The Bourne Identity had Matt Damon hiding out in Goa in western India.

Last month, veteran actor Michael Douglas visited Bombay and said he would co-produce and star in Racing the Monsoon, an action flick about a diamond heist aboard an Indian train. Brosnan said last year that he would not play Bond again. He played Bond in the last four 007 films, which he began in 1995 with Golden Eye and concluded with 2000’s Die Another Day. This was Brosnan’s third trip to India – he first came nearly 20 years ago to shoot an Ismail Merchant movie, The Deceivers. He returned in 2002 to meet the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader living in exile in the northern Indian town of Dharmsala. – AP

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