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Indian director shoots in Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium
Updated On: 02 May, 2009 07:27 AM IST | | Subhash K Jha
Debutant director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan shot his film Lahore at the Gaddafi stadium in Lahore, where the Sri Lankan cricket team faced a terrorist attack recently.
Debutant director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan shot his film Lahore at the Gaddafi stadium in Lahore, where the Sri Lankan cricket team faced a terrorist attack recently.
"It wasn't easy," says the reticent director whose film won the prestigious jury award for Best Feature film at the 42nd WorldFest International Film Festival in Houston last month.
"There was redtapism and a huge outcry on both sides of the border. After 26/11 people in India and Pakistan wanted to know what I was doing making a film set in Lahore."
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