Tight security on Indian set for new Jolie-Pitt film

[KiwiCoromandel]

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have begun shooting scenes for a movie about the life of slain US journalist Daniel Pearl in the western Indian city of Pune.

Security was tight around a spacious bungalow in the Pune suburb of Aundh, chosen because the area resembles Karachi, Pakistan, where Pearl and his wife Mariane spent time.

Jolie plays Mariane Pearl in the in the film, A Mighty Heart, and Dan Futterman portrays Daniel Pearl. Both were involved in yesterday's shoot, said a set manager who did not want to be named for fear of losing his job.

A street sign outside the bungalow has been changed to "Zamzama Fourth Street", and the height of boundary walls of adjoining cottages has been raised to replicate the area Pearl and his wife stayed in Karachi before Pearl's abduction.

The Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy.

The movie is based on an adaptation of Mariane Pearl's book, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, and will be co-produced by Plan B, a production company founded by Pitt and his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Aniston.

source:AP

image:Reuters:Safety concerns ... ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT take a rickshaw ride with son Maddox in the Indian city of Pune.