Film based on 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks being shot in Australia

An Australian film maker, Anthony Maras has written the film and is directing it too.

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A film based on 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks is currently being shot in Australia.

An Australian film maker, Anthony Maras has written the film and is directing it too, Fairfax reports.

Titled Hotel Mumbai, the film boasts of strong hollywood distributor the Weinstein Company who is also the distributor of the movie, Lion, which is a true life story of an Indian boy who got lost in India and was later adopted by an Australian family and brought to Australia.

The movie stars Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev Patel who plays the role of an Indian waiter at the hotel which was attacked by terrorists. It also stars Hammer and Nazanin Boniadi as a couple who are trapped with their baby in the hotel for four days.

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The film focuses on one of the locations, a Mumbai hotel, which was attacked by militants where 164 lives were lost.

Film’s co-writer John Collee told Fairfax that the film revolves around the victims of the terror attack, with the script based on the documentary that focused on iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

"Everyone who came out of that was traumatised by it." Collee told fairfax, "We collected real stories from the event, sometimes compiling characters or changing the names of the victims."

"The servants, cooks and waiters of the hotel were the real heroes. The police were massively outgunned and couldn't do much so it was up to the hotel staff to hide their clients in various rooms then get them all downstairs to smuggle them out through the back passages and corridors that they knew."

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The attacks took place at numerous locations in Mumbai however this film Hotel Mumbai focuses only on the attacks on the hotel.

"We decided just to focus on this one place and do it like the old Towering Inferno, those sorts of movies, which we both like," Collee said. "It's an ensemble piece and an old-style disaster movie."

After the Australian leg, the crew will head to Mumbai for further filming.