Jolie, shooting in India, says film opens dialogue between cultures

Nov 16, 2006, 8:47 GMT

New Delhi - Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie said she accepted a role in the movie, A Mighty Heart, now shooting in western Indian city Mumbai, because she felt there should be dialogue between different cultures and faiths, news reports said Thursday.

'We are all from different backgrounds, even people on the panel and characters in the film,' which is based on the life of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Jolie told news agency IANS.

Jolie, who is playing Mariane Pearl, Daniel's wife in the film, flew into the city last week after over a month of shooting in Pune city, about 150 kilometres south-east of western Maharashtra state's capital Mumbai, where her bodyguards hogged the limelight by allegedly threatening and manhandling press photographers.

The actress and her partner Hollywood actor Brad Pitt and their three children have been under intense media scrutiny ever since they landed in India early last month.

Jolie is expected to stay in Mumbai, where Daniel lived for some years, to continue filming for another week.

The film A Mighty Heart is based on the book written by Mariane, deals with her husband who worked as a reporter for the newspaper Wall Street Journal and was abducted and killed in Pakistan four years ago.

During her shooting schedule in Mumbai, the actress has shot at various locations, including a crowded suburban train, a McDonald's outlet and Mumbai's busiest markets.