October 6, 2007
We're in Mumbai, and other than the fact that it's hideously humid, and also hot, it's quite nice. But who cares about the weather when the exciting news is that I got to be part of a music video shoot, yesterday.
They, being Bollywood in general, need Westerners every once in a while for some of the 900 movies produced in Mumbai every year, so they contact the cheap hotels and ask if anyone is interested. We actually thought we would be in a movie, not that it matters, but we expected to just be extras and only in a crowd scene for about three seconds. We actually talked about what we should wear. Can you believe it? We opted to wear our cleaner clothes, because they look a little nicer, especially now that the chocolate gelato I dropped on my yellow shirt has set in, but we needn't have worried. The other three women and I were the "backup" girls, which doesn't actually mean anything, except we were in a lot more of the scenes. And that they put make-up on us and put us in Indian outfits from the 1960s. Yup, the 1960s, because the "scene" we were in is set in "pre-time." Hee!
David and the male partners of the other women were supposed to be in it, too, but the whole thing ended less than perfectly because of a rather major time conflict. We'd all been told we'd be finished at 10 and some people had transport to catch dependent on that, so when 10 came we had to leave, but they weren't actually done with the shoot. I feel badly about that, but I'm sure they'll figure a way to work around it. David thinks they'll actually use the footage of us, since they were done with our scene anyway, but I have no idea. Not that it matters much, since I'm not really sure how we'd go about finding the video. MTV India, maybe? At any rate, the whole experience was quite entertaining and David got lots of pictures and some video.
