I'm in Mumbai right now.
So what better thing to do than take you guys on a tour of a real Bollywood movie set?
But before that, let's go and get some breakfast because I'm damn hungry.
So we'll go to my favorite bakery here in Bandra.
And then I'll take you for a walk around some of the stars' houses.
The Bollywood stars all live in this area right here.
Oh no! There's a queue outside the bakery.
So people come here in the morning to get their bread for the day.. their breakfast and everything.
Bread is really important here in Mumbai because so many of their foods involve bread.
Like Misal Pav, Vada Pav,
Pav Bhaji and pav just means bread.
So they eat a lot of bread here. So these bakeries are really important.
And you just won't find bakeries like this in Delhi.
We just haven't got them. I mean not this damn tasty so...
it's kind of like a German bakery but they add a bunch of spices to everything and
they really specialize in selling fresh bread in the mornings here.
And this area that I'm walking through right now is called Bandra.
And Bandra is where like at least 50% of the Bollywood stars live within like a 1 or 2 km radius here.
You have everybody like Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rekha, Akshay Kumar.
Oh my god! The list just goes on and on so..
Let's go and check out a few of their houses, right?
So right here on the first floor here.. that is Salman Khan's house;
the bad boy of Bollywood cinema.
He's lived here forever, like, 40 years or something like that.
He's never kind of changed apartment complexes.
And why would he? You're right by the beach here.
Okay so if you wanna see Salman Khan here, you've gotta be here at 4 am in the morning.
And maybe, you'll see him. Only one of those guys had ever seen him because no one's up at 4 am here in India. I can tell you that.
The sun is just rising here in Bandra.
Now before we go and hit off to Rekha's and then Shahrukh Khan's house,
let's talk a little about Bollywood.
So there's quite a bit misconception out there that Bollywood produces more films than Hollywood each year.
It doesn't but Indian cinema in general..
so Bollywood, Tollywood, Mollywood..
all these different Indian cinemas, put together combined..
they do produce way more films than Hollywood.
But like Hollywood, Bollywood only has a few good films a year.
Maybe 30 or so like...
must see films a year.
And so far, in the first two months of the year, there's only been four.
It's been Uri, Manikarnika, Gully Boy and Simmba.
Those are the four kind of must see films so far and the rest are absolute rubbish.
So just like Hollywood, there's only a few good movies you actually need to see.
It's like anything in life, right?
You have to be selective of what you're watching, of what you're reading or what you're listening to.
And now we've reached Mannat. This is Shahrukh Khan's house.
You can't see it behind these massive gates there but this is like a pilgrimage site for kind of all Bollywood fans.
And he lives in this kind of mansion bungalow back here.
And he has the most expensive house worth like 200 crores.
Now I know from personal experience that foreigners have a really really bad perception of Bollywood.
It's just being like these 3 hour romantic comedy, cheesy, terrible, lame musicals.
Did I describe it bad enough?
But that's honestly the perception that foreigners have of Bollywood.
But it;s totally not true.
Bollywood, since the beginning, has given us amazing classic films
like Awara, Mother India, Sholay, Deewar, Salaam Bombay, PK, Black, 3 Idiots.
Bollywood has given the world so many amazing movies but...
foreigners aren't giving it a shot or they're watching the bad films.
And Bollywood has evolved to a point now that I've been watching it for 16 years and
I now watch more Bollywood cinema than I do actually Hollywood cinemas so...
Yeah, I love Bollywood and it is an amazing art form.
And if you guys don't believe me, I challenge you to go and actually watch a Bollywood film, if you've never watched one before.
Go watch a good one. Go watch a movie called Dangal.
It's on Netflix. It's got subtitles and it's a story of two Haryanvi wrestlers who go on to be world champions and...
Just watch that movie and I guarantee you'll love it and you'll see Bollywood in an entirely new light.
So right in front of us is Rekha's house.. a famous old Indian actress,
famous for Umrao Jaan and her beautiful dancing ability.
But you can see... it is all covered.
You cannot see anywhere inside the bungalow there. What to do?
And I know the musical element of Bollywood put a lot of people off but..
when music is done right in ta movie, it really adds to the story.
So you have like a music producer, someone like Amit Trivedi
coming along and writing like 5 songs for a film and if it's done right, it adds to the story.
But you also come out with 5 new favorite songs.
They're not just songs for the story. They're done well like Amit does. They're a lot deeper than just about the films.
He makes them about life. It's just like an artist making music in the West.
These songs, if they're done well, they aren't just about the movie.
They're, you know, it's more than that.
And it has to be more than that if the song's gonna live on after the movies.
And when you find a nice song in these movies that you love, that music stays with you forever, right?
This is why I always say music is part of Indian culture and
Bollywood has given so much music and so much culture to India.
That was cool. We met a few people who had met or at least seen some of the celebrities here but..
coming here and expecting to meet them like..it's not gonna happen. It's just near impossible, right?
Anyway, it's fun to come and see their houses and just see where they live and..
You might have noticed the houses don't look that impressive considering they're worth hundreds and millions of dollars.
And that's because the property prices here in Mumbai,
they have absolutely skyrocketed because it's basically an island and there's no room left.
The house prices are just insane here but if you go inside these places, like Mannat back there..
you are gonna like just step into luxury.. total luxury.
So the outsides look a bit crusty but the insides are out of this world.
You can't imagine it.
So let's go to Film City now and I'll give you a tour of
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