MOVIE THEATER. Toulouse, Albi… Occitania bursts the screen in Indian dark rooms
On January 13, 2023, a film with multiple scenes shot in Occitania is released in cinemas in India. Toulouse, Albi, Montauban or even Auch welcomed the film crews. Occitania makes its cinema, in Tollywood mode.
Mid-December 2022 is a bit like Bollywood sur Garonne. The film crews of an Indian feature film, Waltair Veerayya, carried out by Bobby Kolli settles for a whole week in Occitania. Albi, Toulouse, Auch and Montauban serve as a backdrop for several sequences. The film had its theatrical release on January 13, 2023, in India. But will you be able to identify the emblematic places of our region?
You could have had the opportunity to attend part of the filming, between December 12 and 18, 2022. And to see the two star actors, circumscribed by around twenty dancers, in full choreography and singing on the quay of the Sea bream or Place Saint-Etienne in Toulouse.
Waltair Veerayya is a production from south-east India, coming from Hyderabad in the Telangana region, and shot in Telugu. To be fair, so it wasn’t Bollywood, but Tollywood on the Garonne.
The trailer posted on YouTube, two days before the theatrical release in India on January 13, 2023, is a real hit. Over 6 million views. Enough to keep the pink city at the top of the bill, to the delight of the attractiveness agency of the Metropolis of Toulouse and its filming reception desk.
The Waltair Veerayya film is already on screens in India, and is starting to break through at the American box office. It should then be broadcast on Netflix.
Sparkling costumes, dark glasses and dance scenes in the city center or on the cathedral square. On January 10, 2023, it was the city of Albi’s turn to welcome an Indian film crew for the shooting of a feature film, provisionally titled Project 11. Its headliner: Tottempudi Gopichand, a very popular in India.
According to the municipality of Tarn, which took over from this filming, the film should be released on screens in April 2023.