Viking Splash Goes to Bollywood

Tuesday, 18 October 2011 11:37

The streets of Dublin are awash with colour and music as the Bollywood production “Ek Tha Tiger” has come to town.  The international production tells the tale of spy sent to Dublin on a top secret mission; however life becomes a bit complicated when he falls in love with a woman studying dance in Trinity College.

The principal parts are played by international superstars Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan, two of the top leading actors in the Bollywood industry.  Such is their popularity; most of the shoot locations are a closely guarded secret to avoid throngs of people gathering to get a look at the celebs!

The production team has been busy filming all over Dublin city with action crash scenes, parades and crowd scenes.  Viking Splash Tours was delighted to participate in what is the first full feature length Bollywood movie to be filmed entirely in Ireland.

Jimmy the Gallant (who’s always harbored ambitions to make it on the big screen) jumped at the chance for what would be sure to be his chance to shine.  Bright and early on Thursday morning he captained ‘Thor’ down to the shoot location where filming of one of the main dance scenes was taking place, in what was (apparently) a veritable explosion of song and dance.

After nearly 12 hours of filming it remains to be seen whether Jimmy himself will make the actual cut, one thing for sure though is we’ll all be watching very closely when the film is released.

We'll have some photos to share in a couple of days so watch this space....