Angelina Jolie causes stir on packed Indian train
From ken Ritter

MUMBAI—Actress Angelina Jolie hopped onto a crowded Mumbai commuter train Monday to film a movie about slain journalist Daniel Pearl who lived and worked in India’s financial and entertainment capital.
Hollywood actor Dan Futterman portrays Pearl and Jolie plays his wife Mariane in “A Mighty Heart” co-produced by Plan B, a production company founded by Brad Pitt and his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Aniston.
Jolie and Pitt, accompanied by their three children — Maddox, 5, 18-month-old Zahara and 5-month-old Shiloh Nouvel — had arrived in Mumbai Saturday from the western Indian city Pune where they were shooting the movie for nearly a month.
In Mumbai on Monday, Jolie sporting a pale blue T-shirt and khaki trousers stood in a queue to purchase a ticket. Then Jolie and Futterman, also casually dressed wearing jeans and a white shirt, boarded a train.
They were escorted by bodyguards who held back young students yelling Jolie’s name. Curious onlookers collected outside the train station to catch a glimpse of Jolie.
Street scenes were also filmed of Jolie and Futterman walking near the Gateway of India, a popular tourist destination in downtown Mumbai. The movie stars then filmed inside a hair salon and a restaurant.
Earlier over the weekend, Jolie and Pitt took their children sightseeing. Leading newspapers published pictures of son Maddox perched on Pitt’s shoulders and Jolie carrying daughter Zahara as they stepped out of their luxury hotel on Sunday.
They visited a popular Mumbai restaurant where Pearl, also a musician, often played violin or mandolin with a group of friends.
Jolie was in Pune city since early October filming the movie. Pune was chosen because of its resemblance to Karachi, Pakistan’s financial centre, where Pearl was abducted and killed in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy.
The movie is based on an adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s book, “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl.”
Meanwhile, organizers of a fantasy wedding on the Las Vegas Strip between Hollywood’s hottest unmarried couple got cold feet. Madame Tussauds nixed the plan to stage a depiction of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tying the knot after a representative for Pitt protested, representatives for the actor and the wax museum said Monday.
“I personally found it a little odd that they were re-creating a wedding that never really happened,” said Cindy Guagenti, Los Angeles-based spokeswoman for Pitt. “As Brad’s representative, I found it disturbing.”
Adrian Jones, general manager of the wax museum at the Venetian resort, said in a statement that the decision was made to not cross the stars.
“Since Madame Tussauds enjoys excellent relationships with the celebrity community, we made our own decision not to create the wedding scene,” he said.
The Brangelina wedding had been scheduled Wednesday to mark the unveiling of a Jolie wax figure. Pitt’s already got one.
The scene would have had wax figures of George Clooney, standing in as best man, and the Rev. Robert Schuller, pastor and president of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., officiating.
Wax witnesses would have included the likenesses of the likes of Elvis, Liberace, John Wayne, Bugsy Siegel, Frank Sinatra, Ben Affleck and Luciano Pavarotti.
Instead, Jolie’s wax figure will be introduced Wednesday, without the wedding bells.
Guagenti said Pitt was unaware of Madame Tussauds’ plans. He and Jolie were with their three children in Mumbai, India, where Jolie is filming a movie about slain journalist Daniel Pearl.
Pitt told Esquire magazine for its October edition that he doesn’t intend to marry Jolie until legal restrictions are lifted in the U.S. and “everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able”.