Julia Roberts arrived in India over the weekend to great fanfare, preparing to film the Indian segments of Eat, Pray, Love. In fact, it sounds like she got really into it:
Hindus have applauded the makers of Hollywood movie “Eat, Pray, Love” and its star Julia Roberts for reportedly launching the India leg of the shooting with a hawan (a fire sacrifice). …
Oscar winner Roberts participated with her four-and-a-half-year-old twins-Hazel and Phinnaeus-and two year old Henry, and she also joined in langar (mass lunch), reports suggest.
On the first day’s shooting, Roberts wore ruddraksh (seeds of the tree Eleocarpus ganitrus) mala (rosary), black salvar (a kind of trousers), purple kurta (loose-fitting upper garment) and ate matar-panir (peas-cheese), aloo-gobhi (potato-cauliflower), rice and chapati (Indian thin bread) with her bare hands and found Gulab-Jamun (an Indian sweetmeat) her favorite.
So I can understand why those same locals are pissed now that she rolled in — 350 bodyguards deep — to film in a Hindu temple during their holy days.
JULIA ROBERTS has upset locals by surrounding herself with 350 security guards while she films in India.
Villagers say bouncers are barring them from their temple at a Hindu retreat where Eat, Pray, Love is being shot.
One disappointed worshipper said: “It’s the holiest time of the year and we must not be stopped from visiting our own temple.”
But a cop said: “Nobody can breach the cover. We have strict instructions.”
Which means: No worshiping for you! It sounds like she got the “eat” part down cold, but the “pray” and the “love” could use some work.
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I am so SICK and TIRED of all the little people constantly complaining about how they are inconvenienced by being forced out of their neighborhoods, restaurants, houses of worship etc…
Don’t they know the stars are all better than us? Don’t they know we should be bowing at their feet instead of complaining about them?
Dear Julia,
Nobody who looks THAT much like a Muppet needs 350 bodyguards. Yeah, we get it, you’re all about the common touch, unless commoners try to actually…y’know…touch you. Or infringe on your sacred 150-foot radius.
You’re from fargin’ SMYRNA, GEORGIA, you fugly bitch. Extract that stick from your ass, and use it to pole-vault RIGHT OVER YOUR DAMN SELF.
350 bodyguards? I guess you can never have too much overkill….
I just can’t wait for the fakey, two-cent syrupy spirituality that will leaks from that bloated movie. I love the whole concept; block those who have genuine spirituality to worship so that big movie productions can sell their hokey McCrap version of spirituality for the price of a theatre ticket.
Pure Gold Vs. Gold Pleated Tin. Hypocrisy always looks good with a spiritual touch.
She’s perfect for this book – self-centered and self absorbed just like author Elizabeth Gilbert.
I will definitely miss this one.
I think it’s ridiculous that the people that LIVE there can’t use their own house of worship.. just curious though, did someone not remember the holy days when they gave permission for the movie to film?
350 bodyguards? Do the people who live there even know who she is? Her money is better spent on maybe building schools or providing to the poor, not on 350 people to guard her.
Are you serious that she had 350 body guards?? That is almost a Company in todays modern army. Who thinks they are that inportant that they need a Company of armed men to protect them?
Oops menat to say Batallion not Company.
Aleric said:
Are you serious that she had 350 body guards?? That is almost a Company in todays modern army
Really, and in India too – with all those vegetarian weaklings who can probably be knocked down with one good kick from a meat eater!
Julia Roberts still makes movies? I thought she like died or retired or went back to her home planet.
Is that Vin Diesel in that picture acting as one of her bodyguards? Three hundred and fifty of them could not only take over a Hindu temple, but any nearby cities as well. Without using guns.
350 Bodyguards? Looks like I won’t be hitting that…
Yum…gulab jamun….now I’m hungry. Ooh! I think I have gulab jamun mix in my pantry! Oh, sorry…I was woolgathering.
Of course she won’t let anyone near her – they’ll get close and smell the stink of bullshit around her.
Gaaah, this double-bagger is one of those celebs whose very faces just make me mad. She’s rather less talented than an 8-pack of tortillas, not quite pretty enough to be a centipede, and not quite sweet enough to be a rattlesnake. Julia Roberts makes Katherine Heigl look like Tinkerbell.
I agree with Dee. And didn’t anyone – ANYONE – from the production company check to make sure they wouldn’t offend anyone? Isn’t that the Hollywood mantra, that nobody be offended by ANYTHING?
You know, I’ll probably take a lot of crap for this, but I don’t see the villain here being the Hollywood types.
India is just the newest in a long long line of countries that is perfectly willing to take our money, then love to turn around and act like we’re the Worst People In The World(tm).
Dave and Dee hit the nail on the head – someone had to give them the okay to shoot when they did, and the odds are that person knew perfectly well what week it was going to happen. Now, who should we really expect to know the details of a religious holiday? The people who live there, or the Hollywood people who don’t know anything beyond bottled water preferences?
Frankly, the Indian people bitching about the Hollywood types is like my friend inviting me over to hang out on the same weekend as his wedding anniversary and his wife getting mad at ME for not knowing better. It’s HIS anniversary, so it’s kinda on him to be aware of it and work around it, and I as the innocent bystander probably expected him NOT to pick a time that would be a problem.
Same applies here – their house, their rules – if they said it was alright, then you can’t blame the guests for being ‘insensitive’.
Surprised me, too………..didn’t India sell out to become Bollywood?
Well, I do believe that there is a holy day about every week in India. They were bound to get on someone’s nerves. And isn’t Gulab Jammun dessert? Fried syrup-soaked donut, right? You can’t go wrong there. I’m not a fan of Julia Roberts, but I hardly think she alone is to blame for the little snafu.
I think people hit the nail on the head about the locals okaying filming during holy days. The part I am really wondering about is the 350 bodyguards. I don’t think there are that many people in the Pennsylvanian town my mom grew up in. Maybe somebody screwed up and added the zero in. Actually, 35 bodyguards seems like overkill, too. That’s more people than are in classes in my county’s school district. 350 people is almost half of my high school graduating class!
And why does a Hindu retreat use a local temple? Shouldn’t they have their own private worship space?
Keep in mind, though – the locals in question are probably political officials, not the actual locals who would want to use the local temple. If my little town was being used to film a flick in the library, and I wanted to go in and was told “no you can’t” I’d get mad too. I didn’t give MY permission for these people to be in my library and keep me from using what is public property. I would be willing to bet that the majority of locals had no clue that they would be banned from their own public temple. Most likely the people in power in this area said okay and to hell with the locals – cause we’re getting paid!
And, yeah, Gulab Jamun is a dessert – milk and cheese balls soaked in sweet rosewater syrup. They are delicious!
Dave – I thought the Hollywood mantra was “I have the money, therefore I’m better than these POOR people.”
I gotta sympathize with the temple goers here.
But only because the film crew remaking Red Dawn totally screwed up my life yesterday.
Yeah, ‘cuz Red Dawn was so damn good the first time…
Holy cow (so to speak), AllyKat, did you go to Ginormous Central High? My graduating class was maybe 320.
Minnow, they’re remaking “Red Dawn” in Michigan? Are things really that bad up there?
Hey, Red Dawn was awesome – in the 1980’s. I hate the fact that they are remaking so many movies from the 80’s. Very disturbing.
I’m sure the events in the remake of “Red Dawn” will ALL be chalked up to GWB and American chickens coming home to roost. Because we’re the locus of pure EVIL.
oh, of course. Cause Obama could do no wrong. Neither could Clinton. Even though he let Osama go on more than one occasion.
Well, let’s just say a commie invasion might be an improvement.
The Reds have gotta be more organized than our current state Democrat overlords…
350 bodyguards? I bet that’s more people than will actually see this piece of crap movie.
I hope someone didn’t say that already because I’m not reading 27 comments. I’ve already wasted a day trying to think of Indian jokes that didn’t involve beads, whiskey, beaver pelts, and repeating rifles before I realized it was the other kind of Indian.