The two places may be 600-km apart but Oscar-winning Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow has chosen Chandigarh and its surroundings in Punjab to depict the Pakistani city of Abbottabad -- where Al Qaeda mentor Osama bin Laden was shot dead by US special forces -- for her new film. On Thursday, her unit shot at a dhaba and some shops in Manimajra, an old town suburb of Chandigarh, for the movie 'Zero Dark Thirty' or 'ZD30'. Sources in Bigelow's film unit say some of the film scenes will be shot in and around Chandigarh and some places in neighbouring Punjab. They had on Wednesday shot some scenes in the city's busy Sector 15 market, which is frequented by youngsters owing to its location in the education zone. To give the feel of a Pakistani town, the shops had signboards written in Urdu, the language commonly used in Pakistan while three-wheeler auto-rickshaws and other vehicles too have got a brightly coloured layer of paint and Pakistani registration numbers. A local hardware shop, Ramgarhia Hardware Store, has been renamed Shahzad Hardware and Paint Store in Urdu. An internet cafe and a phone call centre have also been given Pakistani names for the shots. "While the supporting actors in the backdrop are mostly hired locally or from Delhi, their clothes and appearance has been made to match with life in Pakistan," a member who accompanied the unit from Delhi told IANS here. "Given the security environment in Pakistan and the strained US-Pakistan relations, too many risks ...
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