Hollywood Movies That Were Filmed In India: "The Dark Knight Rises", "Mission Impossible" And More

Aesha |Dec 11, 2019

While Bollywood films are sometimes shot in foreign spots around the world, many Indian locations are favorite shooting sites for Hollywood movies.

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Bollywood films are sometimes shot in foreign and exotic spots around the world, yet many Indian locations are favorite shooting sites for Hollywood movies. The picturesque charm of the nation often explains why a Tinseltown flick is opted to be filmed here.

Big directors such as Kathryn Bigelow and Christopher Nolan have had their films recorded in India and some of those have garnered critical acclaim.

So here we have made a list of films which were either partially or completely filmed in India. How the country has been delivered through the lens of the filmmakers in these flicks is engrossing.

Mission Impossible 4

The phenomenal Hollywood film was filmed in Mumbai. The shooting site for its climax scene was placed in the Bora Bazaar’s backstreets. A few other parts were taken in Bangalore.

The Dark Knight Rises

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan got impressed by the state of Rajasthan and its beautiful spots. The jailbreak sequence of Batman trilogy’s third film was filmed at Jodhpur’s Mehrangarh Fort.

Zero Dark Thirty

The film set of the movie telling the Osama Bin Laden hunt was in Chandigarh. Director Kathryn Bigelow and her team remade the scenes where Navy SEALS confront the criminal polymath.

Eat Pray Love

The Julia Roberts starrer was the adaptation from the novel of Elizabeth Gilbert. The protagonist can be seen traveling to India, Indonesia, and Italy. For the India shooting, it was filmed at Ashram Hari Mandir in Haryana.

The Bourne Supremacy

The second installment of the popular Bourne series got filmed in Goa. The part when the past made headway with the main character, the audience can see a fast-track through Goa lanes.

Million Dollar Arm

Million Dollar Arm centers around baseball pitchers Dinesh Patil and Rinku Singh and the sports drama was shot partly in Mumbai.

A Mighty Heart

The drama starring Angelina Jolie was helmed by director Michael Winterbottom and required shooting sequences in Karachi. However, for safety reasons, they were filmed in Pune.