Baadshah - N.T. Rama Rao Jr (2013) - Jordan Road, Kwun Chung

Another random Hong Kong establishing shot from Baadshah shows the view looking west along Jordan Road, just past the junction with Nathan Road. Looking at this shot confirms to me that this is old stock footage because the large Yue Hwa sign hasn't been located here since when I first moved to Hong Kong in 2006. So I guess that clears that up about whether or not the footage was stock or not. The Yue Hwa store is still here, it's the flagship store. The lower image shows the view when you turn the camera 90 degrees to the left (i.e. looking south down Nathan Road).

Baadshah - N.T. Rama Rao Jr (2013) - Victoria Harbour

I've been a bit lax on the foreign film side, thanks to the bountiful supply of old Shaw movies on Youtube, so figured a foray back into overseas productions is a bit overdue. This next one is an Indian Telugu language movie called Baadshah. It's a comedy/action starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as the titular character who is the son of an Indian gangster helping his dad's boss to get money out of Macau. It's a long film and twisty-turny film and can be seen here.

Disclaimer, no part of the film was actually shot in Hong Kong despite a money heist sequence and dockyard action sequence supposedly being set here. The best we get is some general establishing shots just to remind us that no, this definitely is not India or Thailand, we are in Hong Kong as you can see by the fake MTR sign/dockyard crane writing. I can only assume the general establishing shots were stock footage, but am willing to concede that perhaps they are a product of a brief visit by a second unit cameraman whilst they main crew were filming in Bangkok?. If you know, feel free to comment.