A Bollywood movie set was shut down yesterday after turning Khaosan Road, the world-famous backpacker heaven, into a red-light district with sex toys for sale alongside ladies in skimpy outfits.
The internet outrage came after a Thai man posted photos and a video from the set of “Happy Bhag Jayegi Returns,” the sequel to a Bollywood rom-com “Happy Bhag Jayegi.”
The set features seedy lingerie vendors, whose wares are modeled by blow-up sex dolls, signs reading “adult toys,” and at least five women dressed as if they have stepped out of Soi Cowboy.
In the video, a middle-aged Thai man is obviously angered by the set dressing. He stormed the area and said, “Look at this. How could you do this? Do you know what it took for Khaosan Road to become what it is today? Go away.”
While Khaosan Road is not exactly a place for children and is more of the place to get boozed on cheap liquor buckets, sample bugs, and fill your belly with one dollar pad thai, it is not a place to fulfill your sexual kinks.
The production was reportedly shut down after police were called. Pattaya-based production company Indo Bangkok Film Co. Ltd. was identified as the Thai agency responsible for the filming, according to Matichon.
Police said the company had managed to get approval from the Department of Cultural Promotion to film the Bollywood sequel in Thailand last month and was scheduled to film on Khaosan Road for two days.
Police will summon representatives of the company for interrogation today. They have not yet been charged, INN News reported.
The movie’s first installment “Happy Bhag Jayegi” was released in 2016 and made US$6.13 million worldwide. The story follows the journey of a woman who runs away from her groom-to-be with another man.
The first film features Indian actress Diana Penty as the lead, and in the sequel, Sonakshi Sinha, a Bollywood star with a reported net worth of US$10 million, was also a co-star.
Sinha’s Instagram posts suggested that she had been in Thailand this week.
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