Bollywood role for Glasgow Airport hero
23.03.08
John Smeaton, the baggage handler at Glasgow Airport who helped thwart the terrorist attack last year, has been offered a role to play himself in a Bollywood movie. The news is unlikely to impress the other men who helped deal with the terrorists, and who recently launched a stinging attack on 'Smeato'.
Mr Smeaton has received several awards, including a gallantry medal from Queen Elizabeth, for the bravery he showed during the foiled attack. Now he has been offered a role in a Bollywood film, currently titled Beyond Belief and to be directed by Nileish Malhotra. Shooting for the movie starts in Glasgow in June, a year after the attacks.
Mr Malhotra, who was in Dundee this week to launch the project, told the Daily Record: ''We've heard all about John Smeaton and we are very keen for him to play himself. It will be great for the movie if we can get him on board.'
'The film is a thriller with some music in it and it will look into the events leading up to and including the Glasgow attack. It won't be an exact representation of what happened but it will be as accurate as we can make it. We don't want to kill the terrorists; we want to kill the roots of terrorism.'
'We hope to film in Glasgow as well as Dundee and we'll be getting some of Bollywood's leading actors and actresses involved. But we won't be making any announcements until they have signed on the line.'
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