Angelina's bodyguards are in trouble again

By Stone Martindale Nov 16, 2006, 19:01 GMT

Actress Angelina Jolie, still in India, is spurring even more reports of her bodyguards over-eager manhandling of the locals to keep the sultry star safe.

The set for a A Mighty Heart turned into a scene, after the actress' bodyguards allegedly roughed up parents and students at the location, a Mumbai school.

Jolie portrays Mariane Pearl, widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, and was filming at the Anjuman-e-Islam Islamic seminary. E! Online reports that "problems reportedly began when the gates to the school, which had been locked for the shoot, were opened so that parents could pick up their children."

"The guards of the stars threatened the parents that they should not come in," one man told Reuters.

"He pushed a small student and abused us as 'bloody Indians,'" another father said, pointing at one of Jolie's bodyguards, reported Reuters.

A third witness said that a guard "misbehaved with a woman."

The British production company, Dallington, that organized the shoot blamed the incident on paparazzi. Reported E! Online.

"We had the full permission and cooperation of the school to film on the premises," Dallington said in a statement. "When the gates were opened to allow the parents in to collect their children, the paparazzi rushed the school causing confusion."

The India's Daily News & Analysis reported "enraged parents filed a complaint with police against the school's management and against an unnamed bodyguard they accused of attacking and verbally abusing people during the encounter."

E! Online reports "earlier this week, when Jolie and her costar Dan Futterman filmed scenes on a crowded commuter train in Mumbai, a photographer who was in the same compartment as the actress told the BBC that her bodyguards threatened to throw him from the train if he came too close."