Roberts likes Indian food, hates onions

Sep 26, 2010 - Robin Bansal |

New Delhi

Julia Roberts surprised everyone by eating rice, chapati, aloo-gobi and mattar-paneer with her bare hands while filming Eat Pray Love in India in 2009, but the Pretty Woman star can’t stand onions, says her lesser known Indian co-star Russhita Singh.

“She is fond of chicken and she likes eating Indian food a lot. In fact, when we were shooting, she was made to eat matter-paneer, rice, etc,” Russhita said in a telephonic interview from Mumbai.
“We were eating from the same meal that was especially prepared for the crew but it had onions. And it was the most difficult part of the shoot because neither she nor I could tolerate it,” added the 20-year-old, who plays Roberts’ best friend Tulsi in India.
Directed by Ryan Murphy, Eat Pray Love is based on Pushcart prize-winning author Elizabeth Gilbert’s travel memoirs by the same name, and features Roberts as the author who travels to Italy for food, India for spirituality and Indonesia for love.
Having released in the US August 13, the movie hits Indian screens October 8. The Indian part of the movie was shot last fall at the Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi, Haryana, about 40 km from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.
“They wanted to keep it very real and didn’t want to build up a set, so that was a perfect location.”
Eat Pray Love also stars Richard Jenkins, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Christine Hakim and Viola Davis. —IANS

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