Bollywood Beezees

SO we arrived in Mumbai after an overnight train and found the cheapest hotel we could find.
While out shopping the next morning we got scouted by a Bollywood recruiter.
What is Bollywood you ask?
I had never heard of it before either.
Its basically what it sounds like... Hollywood in India. Its as big here as ours in the states.
So this recruiter asked us to play "extras" and meet him @ 8am at mcdonalds.
Hmmm sounds sketchy.
We werent sure but then thought "why not?"
They offered us 500 roupees each!! A whopping $10 us dollars each!!!
Thats actually way more than the average persons days worth of wage here =(
The film is a remake of Hollywoods "Step Mom" the one with Julia Roberts and Susan Surranden. Atleast it didnt sound like it was gonna be scandalous with having us hopping around in bikinis... lol
Our "extra" role was being audience members in a school play.
They loaded us all up on this big bus and we drove about a half hour away to the set.

These pics are a little blurry because I had to sneak them. No cameras were allowed, but come on I had to.

The Director and his team were pretty rude and agrivated and screaming "SSIIIIIILLEEENNNCCE!!!!" at us a lot. There were about 60 of us extras, ALL foreigners. They like to have a lot of white people in their films??

They sent us to wardrobe and put us in some interesting outfits. Pretty basic (darnit, I wanted to Catwoman or something!) except they had me wear these epic neon checkered Austin Powers pants!!! haha and they fit perfectly.

They told us we were beatiful and didnt need our hair and make up done. We were actually kind of bumed by this because we thought that would have been fun. Sooo we watched everyone else instead.

Its hard to see because of the lighting but this is the courtyard we spent most of our day in, waiting in between takes. They fed us breakfast and a late lunch. We got to drink alllll the Chai we wanted =)
We spent most of the day on this playground outside of the school... doing our own photo shoot. Playing with Humpty Dumpty (thats right!) and see saw, swings, slides. Everyone else was smoking ciggarettes and talking politics, being sophisticated, after all- they were big movie stars now. haha. Not us, we were those wierd American girls acting as goofy as possible. We def were having the most fun =)
It was a 12 hour day!
There are some scened that they strategically picked me out of the other extras to sit right in front of the main actors... we had to do things like laugh and look suprised... and looking over in certain directions.
I felt like a pupet all day but it was such an awesome experience and we met all different awesome people including some guys from San Francisco and some girls from Australia and we all met up latter for some drinks and dancing.
I talked to a girl from California who plays as an extra in films there and makes $400 a day! Sign me up, Im seriously gonna look into it when I get back to San Fran.
They did end up giving us our 500 roupees at the end of the day on the bus ride home!
Some things in India arent a lie after all! =)
There is no name for this film yet.
It should be out this summer.