Indian film-maker selects Coventry as location for next project

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Barjatya and producer Ashwani Chopra visited the town this week. They said that the locations, particularly around Coventry University, met their expectations and they were interested in shooting at those sites.

"We wanted to find a university that would be the most helpful and Coventry University did that. It is an ideal location - I like the classic architecture with the cathedral by the side of the modern architecture," Chopra said, adding the characters will study courses (fashion design and automotive design) that the university offers here.

University officials are thrilled that the locations will showcase the university to the large Bollywood audience across the globe.

"It's brilliant and great exposure for us and Coventry as a whole. And it's not just in this city where there is a vast audience of Bollywood movies, it's world wide," said Alison Bushnell, media relations officer at the university, who accompanied the film-makers around the campus.

The popularity of Bollywood films such as "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge", "Mohabbatein", and "Namaste London", filmed at various tourist destinations in Britain, has led Britain's tourism authorities to bring out a "Bollywood Map of Britain" to help the tourists find their way around the locations.

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