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Sensation as Director realises
Jim Rainbird’s Hindu isn’t that good! Still basking in the fame of transporting Kermit the Frog around London whilst the green wonder himself was escaping the amorous advances of Miss Piggy (July Call Sign), Dial-a-Cab’s Jim Rainbird (T25) moved from down-town Hollywood to the now-more glitzy world of Bollywood! Jim explained all to Call Sign: "I was asked to do a film shoot for an Indian production that was going to involve me doing taxi driving scenes, whilst an actor was playing me in my cab - on a low-loader! It was early one Sunday morning when I turned up at Wood Street EC2 and met the crew. "Do you speak Hindu," were the first words out of the Director / Producer’s mouth when I turned up on location together with my taxi. At that time, he was unaware that a Hindu speaking actor would be taking my place as the cab driver on the low-loader shots! My first shots as a Bollywood superstar – ok, my cab’s first star shots - involved the usual hailing, being paid off and pulling away scenes with me driving. Then came the interesting bit in the form of the low-loader! I drove my trusty TXII – complete with its DaC logos - onto this amazing rig, which was being pulled by the biggest American 6 wheel pick-up you’ve ever seen. As soon as I was on, the riggers began securing it and before my eyes, they then built a scaffold cage around it for the lights and cameras with me wincing each time I heard the metal on metal screech of the spanners and clamps! With my Hindu-speaking replacement now in the cab, I sat in the front of the pick-up with the rig driver who told me he’d just finished the new James Bond film and in which they had written off three brand new Aston Martin DB9s! I asked him to be gentle |
JIM’S CAB REACHES THE HEIGHTS OF BOLLYWOOD!
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my taxi was on the back as I only had the one and MI6 probably
didn’t regard me in the same light as Mr Bond! After a few circuits of London Wall, Moorgate and EC5 – sorry, Finsbury Square - the low-loader shots were in the can and it was time for lunch. Even though most of the crew were English, it was the Indian production team who had requested vegetarian catering – and it truly was quite amazing! I had a three-bean chilli with pancake rolls followed by a sweet rice dish. All this while sitting on a double decker bus in Gresham Street! Surreal or what… After lunch, the First Assistant Director seemed to be suffering with an "overdose" of vegetables and at one point the camera crew |
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away from him like the Red Arrows doing the Prince of Wales Feathers display with cries of no naked flames please! I’m guessing he wasn’t used to veggie grub! If that day’s weather forecast mentioned unusually high winds in the City of London, well now at least Call Sign readers will understand why! I’m just pleased that we were all outdoors! After a few more static shots taking in different angles, the production team went inside 88 Wood Street for the internal scenes and there ended my brush with Bollywood stardom…" Namastey London will star the stunning Katrina Kaif and the not quite so stunning but not that bad, Jim Rainbird taxi! The movie will be released later this year… |
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