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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Where The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
The hotel is meant to be in Jaipur, but the palace that plays it stands about an hour and a half outside Udaipur
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Scenes and places
The crowded bus into Jaipur (2011)
The retirees arrive in Jaipur after their flight is rerouted and squeeze onto a packed bus. Evelyn, newly widowed, takes in the heat and noise of a country she last saw forty years ago.
Set in Central Jaipur — The city centre the new arrivals reach by bus and tuk-tuk. Google Maps · Apple Maps
Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan, known for its crowded old-city streets and markets.
Filmed at Jaipur streets, the Marigold market and crowded buses (City centre, Jaipur, India) — Filmed in Jaipur around the Marigold market and on crowded buses; the exact streets are not named in the source. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
The retirees discover that the hotel they paid for is a dilapidated building run by Sonny, an energetic but inept young manager. Sonny's mother moves in to push him toward a safer job.
Set in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — The run-down hotel in Jaipur, advertised as an exotic retirement home, where the retirees find themselves.
A former palace of a tribal chieftain in a Rajasthan village, now an equestrian hotel.
Where Sonny and Sunaina meet (2011)
Sonny, the hotel manager, is in love with Sunaina, who works at a call centre, and the two look for places to be alone. Her brother Jay keeps watch and disapproves.
Set in Meeting place of Sonny and Sunaina — The place where Sonny and Sunaina meet in the film. Google Maps · Apple Maps
A stepwell next to Amer Fort, north of Jaipur, built around a square pool with steps down on all sides.
Filmed at Panna Meena ka Kund, near Amer Fort (Amer, Jaipur, India) — Filmed here: a 10th-century stepwell with ten stories of pale golden stone steps. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The Viceroy Club (2011)
Madge walks into the Viceroy Club hoping to meet a wealthy widowed landowner. She is surprised to find Norman there and ends up helping him get into a relationship with a woman named Carol.
Set in The Viceroy Club — A colonial-era members' club where Madge tries to join and find a husband.
A fort on the outskirts of Jaipur, used here as a colonial-style private club.
Evelyn's call centre job (2011)
Evelyn takes a job at a local call centre, where Sonny's girlfriend Sunaina and her brother Jay work. It gives her days a shape in a city she is still learning.
Set in The call centre — The local call centre where Sunaina and her brother Jay work and where Evelyn gets a job.
A call centre in Jaipur, part of the outsourcing industry that the film's idea is built on.
Filmed at City Palace, Jaipur — Jaipur street scenes (scene not named in the source) Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Lake Palace Hotel, Lake Pichola, Udaipur — Scene not named in the source Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Kishangarh — Scene not named in the source Google Maps · Apple Maps
Characters
- Evelyn — A recently widowed housewife who must sell her house to pay off her husband's debts and moves to India.
- Sonny — The energetic but inept young manager of the hotel.
- Madge — A woman who, after several unsuccessful marriages, searches for new romance overseas.
- Sunaina — A call centre worker and Sonny's girlfriend.
Questions answered on the map
- Where is the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel really?
- Which fort played the Viceroy Club in the Marigold Hotel film?