Bollywood wraps river shoot

17-Sep-12 – (Left) Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan performs a scene shot on the Chicago Riverwalk Sunday afternoon.

Bachchan stars as a police officer in Dhoom 3: Back in Action, an Indian “Bollywood” movie being filmed in Chicago. A crew shot the actor as he ran down steps and all but jumped over the side, something a stunt performer did minutes earlier, landing on large padded mats.

There were no helicopters but filmmakers spent a second and final day on, under, and near the Wabash Avenue Bridge. Scenes on the Chicago River involved a variety of high-speed watercraft. It was a wrap for the river but filming for Dhoom 3 will continue in Chicago through December.

(Above) With patrons of Dick’s Last Resort looking on from above, a film crew uses the marina at Marina City as a staging area for a scene shot late Sunday afternoon on the Chicago River. The camera, wrapped in plastic, is at the end of a boom extending from the boat at left. The scene was filmed just east of Marina City, between the Wabash Avenue and DuSable Avenue Bridges. (Click on images to view larger versions.)

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