Bollywood wraps river shoot

Bachchan stars as a police officer in Dhoom 3: Back in Action, an Indian “Bollywood” movie being filmed in Chicago. A crew shot the actor as he ran down steps and all but jumped over the side, something a stunt performer did minutes earlier, landing on large padded mats.

There were no helicopters but filmmakers spent a second and final day on, under, and near the Wabash Avenue Bridge. Scenes on the Chicago River involved a variety of high-speed watercraft. It was a wrap for the river but filming for Dhoom 3 will continue in Chicago through December.

(Above) With patrons of Dick’s Last Resort looking on from above, a film crew uses the marina at Marina City as a staging area for a scene shot late Sunday afternoon on the Chicago River. The camera, wrapped in plastic, is at the end of a boom extending from the boat at left. The scene was filmed just east of Marina City, between the Wabash Avenue and DuSable Avenue Bridges.

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