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O'Brien & Porterfield go Bollywood

Date posted: 02/12/2011

Unforgettable the movie
Friday evening I  jumped on the train and met up with William Porterfield in Birmingham airport , Normally when myself and William are at an airport its for a cricket tour so it was rather strange us going to Dubai where we tour most years for Ireland and not to be playing cricket so it was a totally different type of excitement. We are en route to shoot a bollywood movie called unforgettable and we are hoping that the movie lives up to its namesake for the right reasons.....It all started in Feb when on a camp in Dubai we met a Irish/Indian family who owned the hotel we stayed in and they looked after us so well. After a while Zarah told a few of us about a movie she was hoping to produce her first movie and wondered if any of us would like to be involved , A few of us said yeah that sounds like a good idea if nothing else it got us in the sun for 5 days in November and with India and bollywood crossing with cricket a fair bit we thought who knows what might come from it. We arrived early Saturday morning to be taken to our hotel at the grand mid west in media city and have been given a very nice room , I was greeted by 2 men hanging 20 floors up cleaning our windows which was interesting to see at 8am ,
Sunday day 1 shoot , Myself and William rise nice and early and have some breakfast and contemplate what on earth 2day will have in store!!!!
The main actor in the movie is a big star in Bollywood but unfortunately I cannot release his name at this point in time , He is a  huge actor in Indian TV . We arrived on set to be treated like kings of the screen anything was made possible for us and we even had people hold umbrellas over our heads 2 keep us cool.... It was needed as the heat rose .