Julia Roberts and Eat Pray Love in India

The production team for Eat, Pray, Love, the forthcoming Julia Roberts movie, erected a huge set to depict a bustling India market, complete with a traveling circus in Mirzapur, Haryana near New Delhi. More than 500 people were employed in the construction of the make-believe market. The movie is based on the #1 best selling book of 2006, by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Although some villagers climbed trees and filled rooftops in the dusty village to have a look at Roberts and the shooting, most of them had no idea who Julia Roberts is or what the book was about. Scheduled  August 2010 release, “Eat, Pray, Love” also stars Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), Viola Davis (Doubt) and Billy Crudup (Almost Famous). Roberts’ last big hit “Charlie Wilson’s War” (2007) barely registered on the Indian box office, hopefully this time around Ms. Roberts will be able to pull crowds at the Indian box office.