One of the film’s actors, Jessica Chastain, who recently starred in the Tree
of Life and The Help, revealed filming had been under way in Jordan and was
set to move to India.
“I’ve been working on Bigelow’s movie in Jordan after the Oscars I go to
India to shoot more,” she said on a celebrity website earlier this
week.
Indian
officials confirmed the producers are filming in Punjab state in Chandigarh
and Patiala, and possibly close to Jaipur in Rajasthan, where they will
recreate Abbottabad where bin Laden, his wives, children and aides hid for
more than six years.
While Chandigarh is a 1950s modernist town created by the French designer Le
Corbusier, its outskirts have villages which resemble Thanda Choha, the
hamlet of dusty lanes and ugly walled mansions where bin Laden hid on an
illegally-built upper floor. Patiala is a historic royal town which has fine
colonial buildings similar to some found in Abbottabad, the hill town named
after the 19th British conqueror of the North West Frontier, Major James
Abbott.
The film has already caused controversy in the United States where officials
in the Obama administration have been accused of leaking details of the bin
Laden raid to the producers.
The row prompted the CIA to release a statement detailing its long-standing
role of helping artists and film-makers. “The CIA has been open that as
part of our public outreach, the agency has over the years engaged with
writers, documentary film-makers, movie and TV producers, and others in the
entertainment industry,” a spokeswoman said recently.
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