Two of my friends at City Lodge,on your left, Ahmed, and on your right, Mahipal. I will miss these guys as well as the other gents Shiva, Aakash, Nagaraj, and Mohahmed Azam
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My Tolliwood tour guide and friend, Ramesh. Tolliwood is a nickname for the Telugu film industry in Hyderabad
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An actor in this Tolliwood shoot gets himself all brushed up between scenes.
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A new recruit to Singhs Security Service force at a "Tolliwood" film
studio? Can you find the rookie in this line-up? A hint...Madava Redi, Tad, P. Gopal Redi, and Venkat.
(Padmalaya Studios, Film Nagar, Hyderabad, India)
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A farmer and visitor to the studio with me, Mr. Vem Kumar poses with this outdoor scenery inside one of the studios
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On the set of Hindi movie Hamara Dil Puch Ni with (left to right) Vasarodath (Ramesh's uncle and set electrician), Ragoo, Yadigiree, and Vem Kumar
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I camped out at this rock quarry last night. It was a good, and peaceful site off the road. I was spotted packing up the next day and three men told me that there was "a war with Afghanistan" but I didn't understand them at the time
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This guy rode next to me for about 5 kilometers and we went back and forth, he singing and me repeating after him, Hindi film songs. That was fun!
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This is the place at the Sikh temple in Bidar where people remember where Guru Nanak brought forth water by stepping on a stone during a time of drought
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