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A Mighty Poor Choice In Security Guards

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AJOLIE111606_2.jpgWith Al-Qaeda reportedly issuing threats against Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt while the pair film A Mighty Heart in Pune, India, we can't really hold it against the celebrity couple for hiring a security squad determined to keep their family safe at any cost - but this is getting ridiculous! We just got these pictures of another near-riot allegedly triggered by Angelina's security detail from our man on the ground in India - here's the deal:

A Mighty Heart apparently makes extensive use of local locations in India, including a day spent shooting at a school in Mumbai. The decision to shoot at the school, however, proved to be a contentious one - in addition to the throng of fans and media people, the event drew a large crowd of parents who came to pick their children up and voice their dissatisfaction with the disruption caused by the movie folks. But the scene turned ugly when Angelina's security guards started pushing and shoving the crowd in an effort to force them back - despite Indian actor Irfan Khan's best efforts to calm the crowd, eventually things got so heated that shooting had to stop to allow Angelina to beat a path back to the safety of her hotel room!

A Mighty Heart is turning into one heck of an embattled production - if things keep up at this rate, it won't be too long until there's more drama off-screen than on it!



AJOLIE111606_3.jpgOK, here's the deal:

AJOLIE111606_4.jpgWhile the crowd raged outside...

AJOLIE111606_5.jpgIrfan Khan (the tall fellow in the white shirt here) tried to calm them down, but when it didn't work...

AJOLIE111606_6.jpg...Angelina bolted for the safety of her hotel

AJOLIE111606_7.jpg...and was accompanied by a policeman on the lookout for any trouble

AJOLIE111606_8.jpgBut don't worry, fans - the production's still proceeding as planned!

A lot of times, movie studios will orchestrate drama just to get people talking, but all the drama surrounding A Mighty Heart seems pretty organic. What do you think?

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Posted by: sativa


Why do people care about her? If I lived there, I'd be as far away from her and her whorishness as I could possibly be.

Posted by: Anonymous




youre all a bunch of fucking slimebags anyway with miserable lives if you need to get involved with this shit namecalling on a stalker site run by an ugly french monkey ooo oo ah ahhh ahh fuck off cuntholes

Posted by: cunthole


don't turn this into another perez (Big piece of trash) site with the "first" crap. No one gives a damn. If that's all you can say - go back to Perez.

Posted by: Anonymous


How are they Angelina's security detail? If it was Mickey and his team, yes but those are uniformed Indian guards hired by the production company to secure the set. I love how the media's making it sound like it's the big, bad foreign guards fighting with the parents when it's actually the Indian guards having shouting matches with the parents.

Posted by: Izzy


I just did it to get a reaction out of you "anonymous" your a chicken shit for not even making up a name to post with. fuckin idiot

Posted by: sativa


You guys are fucking idiots because those are indian guards which means that they were hired by the indian production company that is handling the making of this media in india. How the hell is the angelinas fault. If you hate her find but this is just fucking ridiculous to blame her for something she has no control over.

Posted by: Idiots


"Jolie's bodyguards had no decency and they pushed some of the women around," added parent Sarwar Siddique, who had come to collect his two children.

"The children got scared at seeing the crew dressed in police uniform and carrying weapons," Siddique added.

Another unidentified man told private NDTV network that one of Jolie's bodyguards called a man in the crowd outside the school a "bloody Indian" and made a gesture miming the slitting of a throat.

Posted by: kinny


Oh Man, suddenly this has totali gotten out of the Jolie subject.. Anyways yup, I don't think Jolie hired these guys.. Its same in every country that these celebs visit, they have to have the locals of that country guard for them. Well, they can always bring their personal guard along too..

Posted by: Fae


it's ridiculous that anybody would blame angelina for the mayhem. that's not angelina's job to set order and if nobody took action and something worse happend we would be talking about how there wasn't enough security.so shut up.angelina rocks.

Posted by: kena


Does no one else wonder about her veins popping out of her bone thin arms? (And the same goes for her legs that you can see in other pictures)? She is dangerously skinny and aside from my own personal feelings about her as a person, I think she needs some help.

Posted by: Why?


Sativa/saliva what ever it is...For your information my name is Brooke and I am not a "chicken shit" as you so intelligently put it. I didn't know it was a requirement to have a name put there for your calling out purposes - ohhhh I must be a "fuckin(g) idiot". Please. I find it hard to believe you put that comment up there just to get a rise out of me. Try again. Take your childish comments elsewhere (I suppose Perez might be interested in your type).

Posted by: Brooke


O.K. sativa (Fake name) So your saying it's better to hide behind a "Fake name" than it is to not put anything at all. Your such a DICK! Your one of these A**holes that think your better than EVERYONE! Your NOT!!!!

Posted by: mike


OK Mike/Brooke. SATIVA IS BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT? HE JUST SAID "FIRST" TO BE A JACKASS. HE WAS MOCKING ALL OF YOU FAGS WHO NEED TO BEND OVER AND TAKE ONE IN THE ASS LIKE YOU ALL DESERVE. NOTHING ELSE. LIGHTEN UP YOU FACIST PIGS.

Posted by: MATT


LOL. Mike, your a prick. So, I didn't generate a generic ass name like "anonymous" or "mike" which is probably the same person. either way you're all pricks and I AM BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU. DON'T EVER FORGET IT!
FUCKING FREAKS.

Posted by: SativaD


ummm... Hmmm I don't care. She looks beautiful in those new pics. Thanks.

Posted by: errrr


Sativa/Matt (same person) This will be my last comment to you, I have no idea who Mike is (thanks by the way Mike for seeing my point). I can guarantee you that I am not lame like you and have to post under different names to pretend that someone has my back. Please, carry on with your unnecessary insults. They do nothing to me. Enjoy your day tard.

Posted by: Brooke


LOL your a biatch. my last comment.

Posted by: Sativa


IGNORANT JUST LIKE THIS WHOLE EFFING SITE.

Posted by: n8ghborgrl


SO Matt are you this guys boyfriend!!!!!
How else would you know how great he is!?? Who are the FAGS!?!?!?

Posted by: Anonymous


O.K. So Matt is better than Mike. RIGHT!!!!

Posted by: YourAholes!


its just sad that they want to make the film more realistic, but scaring children and filming inside a school while children are present makes me sick. how inconsiderate of them. make me think that this duo (brad and jolie) is using kids/children there own or not for publicity!!!! you guys should be asshamed !

Posted by: akita


Izzy

It´s not about the media. AP reported several testemoneys about chldreen being pushed and wmen misbehaved. whoever did this is paying a awful service to the Jolie-Pitts

Posted by: SL


Idiots:

I believe the idiot here is you. If you don´t know what to say besides calling names to everyone maybe you should STFU. Pepople there are complaining to the POLICE because they were completelly oblivious to all that rise. It´s about the bodyguards hired by the Production Team. No one is blaming angelina here so cut the crap. It´s those monkeys they hired as security. This is for you too, kena.

Posted by: Leila


I agree with Leila, I think it was the Production management/team who hired someone to surveil the shooting. However I think that person or persons will be fired soon. I don´t think they will take this faillure lightly.

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Dallington TV, the British production company that organized the shoot, blamed the incident on (who else?) the paparazzi.

"We had the full permission and cooperation of the school to film on the premises," Dallington said in a statement. "When the gates were opened to allow the parents in to collect their children, the paparazzi rushed the school, causing confusion."

According to India's Daily News & Analysis, enraged parents filed a complaint with police against the school's management and against an unnamed bodyguard, whom they accused of attacking and verbally abusing people during the encounter. Police were reportedly reluctant to accept the complaint, but eventually relented.

Posted by: SL


About Mr. Khan´s statements you guys indicated above on the pics, here´s what he said:

1 - "Irfan Khan, an eyewitness who pacified the irate crowd at Anjuman-e-Islaam School in south Mumbai, said one bodyguard threatened people and called them "bloody Indians", pushed a small child and misbehaved with a woman."

2 - "Classes in the secondary section ended at 12.30 pm and students emerged to find all the gates of the school closed, Khan said.

"The parents were very worried about what will happen to the children. There was such a large crowd of children that there were chances of a stampede," he said.

The bodyguards told parents not to get in the way of the filming. "He (a bodyguard) pushed a small kid, he misbehaved with a woman. He abused them as bloody Indians," said Khan."

3 - "Khan said the matter was resolved by parents and no member of the school's management was present when the incident occurred. Parents also raised questions as to who had permitted the film crew to shoot at the school."

Posted by: Anonymous


i adore angelina jolie.all these shit talking that's happening in india is most likely getting lost in translation.

Posted by: maria


How is Angelina responsible for a British production company's locally hired uniformed security guards? Dallington TV, the British production company that organized the shoot hired the uniformed security guards, not Angelina. Also the school did not inform the parents that they had agreed to let the film use the school.
Pixs of Brad and Angelina in India always show the same four, NON UNIFORMED personal security guards that they employ. Those guards are not pictured here. Splash has a video and none of Angelina's personal security guards are shown interacting with the crowd. NONE! Only the same uniformed guards as shown above. India seems too chaotic/disorganized to make other than a Bollywood film there. A well known Bollywood actress's security was just cited in local papers for pushing people away in trying to protect her. These type interactions seem common in India.

Posted by: marmar


I guess the people of these crapy countries she likes to hang out in REALLY don't like her as much as she says!

Posted by: Anonymous


I think the people like her too much. She is mobbed wherever she goes. After all there are almost daily pixs of her in India being chased by both the tabs and fans.

Posted by: marmar


marmar

It´s not because you don´t agree with the India authorities that you have the right to express all that negative comments about the country. Like any other country there are faillures in security and not ever every authority do the job as they should. If anything MH prodiction and Angelina or any other actor are not guilty of what happened. Unfortinately this was all a case of bad organization that could have ended pretty bad, specially, considering there are childreen involved. And FYI she was not mobbed. there were the parents and their children that were. Indian people are, in generally very respectuful people.

Posted by: SL


It's Jolie's job to make sure she doesn't hire a troupe of racist bodyguards who are inclined to commit brutal (criminal) acts against the common people. Especially when she's in another country. I'm sorry for you folks out there who think you love her (though never met her). This episode makes her look really bad.

Posted by: dc


It´s on the news: Mickey Brett and other bodyguards are being charged and were presented to police. (there are pics)

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Angelina Jolie bodyguards bailed
By Monica Chadha
BBC News, Mumbai

Three bodyguards of Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie have been released on bail in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay).

They have been charged with "insult to religion and threatening to kill" after being involved in a scuffle with parents at a Mumbai school, police say.

Jolie was filming at the Anjuman-i-Islam school at the time.

She is in India to film A Mighty Heart, based on the life of murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl.

'Upset'

Angry parents accused Jolie's bodyguards of pushing and insulting them when they came to collect their children from the school on Thursday.


Jolie's India trip is the subject of intese media interest

"Children were waiting inside for us and, when they opened the gates, those men [bodyguards] pushed our ladies and children. They also said 'You bloody Indian'. This is just not done," said parent Mohammed Yusuf Patni.

Mr Patni said parents were upset that the school allowed filming while classes were being held inside.

"There were actors dressed in Pakistani policemen's uniforms. They were holding guns which scared the children," he said.

A statement from the film producers said: "We had the full permission and co-operation of the school to film on the premises.

"Unfortunately, our arrival was impeded by the paparazzi waiting at the gates of the school.

"When the gates were opened to allow the parents in to collect their children, the paparazzi rushed into the school causing confusion."

The lawyer for the bodyguards, Mahesh Jethmalani, told the BBC the bodyguards were released on bail of 25,000 rupees each ($555).

They have been told to report to the police every day for the next seven days.

"They've basically been charged with offences related to criminal intimidation," Mr Jethmalani said.

"These are all cases of your word against mine. Looking at the circumstances I doubt if all these words were uttered."



Posted by: Anonymous


I jsut know that movie is going to be a ten pound turkey, i.e. a huge bomb. Everyone knows Angie can't act -- she's just famous for having you know what with tons of dif guys and girls. Whatever, she's a great humanitarian....sure...but actress? Not since she was in her early 20s.

Posted by: Parisa


you guys are idiots

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