Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong - Mehmood (1971) - Tiger Balm Gardens

Another entry for the growing list of Indian films featured on the blog. This one is in Hindi and was released all the way back in 1971. The image quality isn't great and I don't understand Hindi, so for the plot I suggest going to the Wiki page. The film itself, like many Indian movies, is freely available to watch on Youtube courtesy of of the Old_golden Movies channel.

The first location we see in Hong Kong is actually played out over the opening credits, but the movie plot itself doesn't reach Hong Kong until we are two thirds through the film. The locations are interesting, but mixed in with obvious Indian locations (and what looks to be a Shaw-style Hong Kong street set built at an Indian studio lot) pretending to be Hong Kong.

The images of Haw Par Mansion were grabbed from the opening credits. This sequence then has multiple images of the various quirky installations from around the gardens, too many to include here I feel.

The lower images are taken from when the plot moves to Hong Kong later in the film and include shots of the Double Tenth gate/staircase that has been featured a few times before on the blog. 

Aw Boon Haw parental memorial pagoda

Double Tenth archway

Grotto next to Double Tenth Archway

If you have read any other posts I have done about the gardens, you will know that the stariway and archway (and the grotto) above were part of the first section of the garden to be sold for redevelopment in the early 1980s. Ronsdale Garden now sits on where these were once located.

This last image is from the end of the opening credits and shows the famous (and still preserved) outstretched arms tiger statue that now stands next to entrance to the Haw Par Mansion.