‘Eat, Pray, Love’ – Actress Julia Roberts in North India for a Hollywood movie shoot!
“Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We all know our favorite Indian mantra – Khao, Pio, aish karo! -Eat, drink, Enjoy life. And, now listen to this:
Superstar Julia Roberts has been in North India lately shooting for a Hollywood movie ‘Eat, Pray, Love’.
It seems as if they took our desi slogan above and twisted it.
Well, may be not the same slogan, but close! 
Actually, the movie and the title is based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir. The book – ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ – is about her travels through Italy (Eating), India (Praying) and Indonesia (and love ) in search of personal restoration. It is an interesting and brave journey; she leaves behind everything, including her marriage, and ventures on a journey of self-discovery, looking for a balance in her life after the divorce followed by a failed love affair. Sounds movie material !
Julia Roberts, the Academy award winning actress kicked off the shooting for the Indian portion of the movie in a Hindu style, with a ‘hawan’ -the ritual with fire, prayer and the whole nine yard…
While little kids climbed the trees and rooftops, she filmed for the movie all over the places including in a small village in North India. It is a safe guess that there were lots of ‘praying’. The author, as per the memoir, spends many months in an Indian Ashram (religious hermitage) cleaning the floors and praying – searching for spirituality. Read the rest of this entry »
