Dhoom 3 films in Chicago, an exciting morning (JWB, 2012) |
I was about
15 minutes from the end of the River Cruise I was leading this morning for the
Chicago Architecture Foundation, just launching into my hymn of praise for the
1989 NBC Tower, when I, along with the 50 or so folks on the boat, found
ourselves in the middle of a movie shoot.
I gave up trying to talk over the two helicopters that were swirling
above us. No one was going to pay
attention to me anyway, even if they could hear me above the noise of the
helicopters, one of which had a stuntman struggling for his life at the end of a rope.
The Bollywood
shoot for Dhoom 3 has been going on in Chicago for over a month now and was halted briefly
when the production company failed to get permission for filming during the
week of the Air and Water Show.
At home
I finally found the announcement for today’s shoot with the following
understatement: PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THERE WILL BE 2 LOW
FLYING HELECOPTERS ON WACKER DR BETWEEN MICHIGAN AVE AND THE WACKER TURNAROUND
BETWEEN 9AM – 1PM.
“Low
flying” would be, in my estimation, an understatement. We were in the rotor wash as the boat moved
down the river, and it was an incredible sight to see how close the two copters
came to the buildings in Illinois Center and to Wacker Drive.
According
to the film site Onlocationvacations.com, ”The film is the latest
in the popular Bollywood buddy cop series, starring Indian actor Aamir Khan as a thief who is a skilled
acrobat able to elude the hero cop of the series and his sidekick, played by Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra.” You can find the thread about the film here.
The
picture at the top is not great quality, but my IPhone was the only thing I had
when the helicopters returned after my tour for a second go-round. The photo does provide some idea, though, of
how close we were to the action.
2 comments:
That helicopter is alarmingly low-flying! I would have been scared f I saw that hovering above me!
I love this city!!!
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