![]() ![]() “We’ve shot seven films on the mainland and this is our first step into Victoria which is a very interesting place to cheat. It looks like England.”Īside from Craigdarroch, masquerading as a haunted castle, filming will continue at Ross Bay Cemetery, outside the legislature and downtown before the cameras roll in England and India.Īnd, yes, said Sidhu, there are the kind of musical production numbers audiences have come to expect from Bollywood, and not just the big, expensive Hindi-language spectacles. His production partner, Dave Dillon, said they worked as line producers for Bollywood productions shot in B.C. before making their own with specialized Canadian crews catering to foreign films. “It has become a fashion with Bollywood now that the more foreign content you can show, the better,” Dillon said. Sardaar Ji is the third Bollywood film shot here within the past two years and industry sources say there are more to come.Īnd we have tried our best to show that.” “The audience is enchanted by the beauty of B.C. The industry’s potential has grown so much that Premier Christy Clark just appointed Arjun Sablok as special envoy for film to India to promote further production of Indian projects in B.C., including Victoria. While there are less investment funds available for Punjabi-language films than the Hindi spectacles, White Hill’s films are distributed wherever the language is spoken, Dillon said. The foreign content “just brings out that flavour for those who haven’t been abroad. It quenches their thirst with all these nice buildings, scenery and so on,” he said.ĭillon, who once managed AM 15 radio stations in Vancouver and produced Punjabi news on Channel M, has also worked on Hollywood productions.
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