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Mehrangarh Fort – Jodhpur

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Jodhpur, in Rajasthan in north-east India, had been used for a couple of days of filming for The Dark Knight Rises. The shooting focused on the500-year old Mehrangarh fort, which has been declared as a National Geographic Monument by the geological survey of India to encourage geotourism in the country. The fort rises 120 meters above the city and had been used for shooting commercials by brands like visa and Pepsi.

has increasingly sought India’s widely varying landscape as setting for its epic adventure. Like such, few shots of the third series of the two blockbuster movies of batman 'The dark knight rises' was also shooted in Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur. Karni Jasol, the director at the fort had said that Mehrangarh jodhpur is a popular site of filming due to its grandeur and stunning setting. It is also one of the best managed forts in India. The fort provides beautiful sceneries inside and outside it both, which is a great source of attraction. Also, film companies are provided with professional one-point service which makes the production experience at Mehrangarh Fort a joy and full of excitements.

If we talk about the reason of the film  The Dark Knight Rises filmed in Mehrangarh Fort, so it was the choice of the director of the movie Christopher Nolan, who just does not choose location based on fan bases but based on research and facts. The location you see above is Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, India. Christopher Nolan's series ‘Batman Begins', Batman was trained near Himalayan tibbet. So the early days of the Batman series revolved in Asia. To show a different aspect in a movie, and to attract the audience, a perfect location needs to be selected thoroughly, then only it leaves a great impact of the movie in the viewers mind. The same thing had been shown in the series because of the proper selection of the location by Nolan.

The Mehrangarh Fort is known for its beautiful architecture, formidable walls and cultural heritage, is one of the magnificent fort in India. The director of the series Nolam, shot a prison scene here that features among the opening scene of the finale to his epic Batman Triology. The film had been filmed in the summer in 120-degree heat. The local people thought that these people have gone nuts filming in such a heated environment. 'The Dark Knight Rises', which shows bale reprise of the role of batman, touched down in a remote expanse near Jodhpur and the forbidding landscape added to the desolation of Prison Scene. As the film demanded a few shots of this beautiful location. So only few crew came for shoot.

So, to keep the movie intresting and the fans happy, it is needed that a movie should filmed beautiful and adventurous location as we saw in the case of this wonderful 3rd series of Batman.