10 Times Bollywood Fooled Us By Showing Fake Locations In These Popular Films

Bollywood films have always given is many larger than life goals and be it in the sector of romance, drama, emotions or be it travel. There are so many picturesque locations portrayed in Bollywood that keep making our bucket list longer. As we lust over these beautiful places it is also necessary to know that a lot of these places may not be what they are being shown as. Many a times because of budget, permissions or script requirements the makers shift locations and tag them to be someplace else. So here is a list of films that fooled us with the location names.

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Gadar Ek Prem Katha – Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel starrer cross border romance shot the Pakistan portions in Lucknow.

Fanaa – The film had beautiful sequences which were said to have been Kashmir in the film but in reality these scenes were shot in Poland.

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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani – The film gave us major friendship goals, trip goal, relationship goals, wedding goals and what not. But of the places this movie was shot at, Kashmir became their Manali where the entire trip and camping sequence was shot.

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Dabanng - The story based in a small town in Uttar Pradesh called Laalgunj , was in reality shot at a location near Pune, Maharashtra.

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Chennai Express – So many scenes of the film that are portrayed to be shot in Komban, Tamil Nadu have actually been shot near Pune much like Dabanng.

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Phantom – For a Bollywood film to go and actually shoot in Pakistan is a bit too much of a permissions hassle, but our smart film makers know how to carve out their Pakistan in India itself. Phantom made it Pakistan in Malerkotla in Punjab.

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Bajrangi Bhaijaan – The film won a million hearts at once, with our Sallu Bhai fighting all odds to drop Munni back to her home in Sultanpur, Pakistan. But all these scenes were in reality filmed in Kashmir.

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Bombay Velvet – With Bombay in the very title of the film, the makers chose to recreate the Bombay sequences in Sri Lanka.

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Mary Kom  - The biopic that was based on the inspirational boxer from Manipur had some parts of the film recreated in Manali, Himachal Pradesh and portrayed as Manipur.

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Sarabjit – The film’s Pakistani jail portions were recreated in a studio in Mumbai.

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Bollywood’s travel tales are indeed as filmy as the films themselves!

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