Sri Venkateswara Temple – Bridgewater, NJ
(Image copyrighted to Dustin Farnum. All rights reserved.)
Another location that was pointed to us by a fan & visitor of this site, Dot. It is really inputs like this from visitors like you that makes running this site a fun experience. For those who couldn’t make out in which movie this location was used, this is a location that comes for a few fleeting seconds in the Anbil Avan/ Manasaa song from the recent Tamil – Telugu bilingual super hit Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa/ Ye Maaya Chesave. Gautham Menon has always been fond of the New York – New Jersey area and thus it comes as no surprise to us that he has once again used a location form that area to film this particular wedding scene. The song has been shot at various other locations in the same area and those will be covered in future posts.
About the location (from here):
Sri Venkateswara Temple (Balaji Mandir) is run by the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of USA Inc. The Temple was designed by Indian Temple Architects according to ancient Indian Temple building codes and was inaugurated (Kumbabhishekam) in 1998. In addition to the religious services, HTCS also conducts cultural, educational, and community services. The Temple is open on all days for worship. The Temple has a gift shop operated by the Temple volunteers. Gift shop offers a variety of items of religious importance for purchase by devotees.
Movies shot at this location:
Anbil Avan from Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa
Manasaa from Ye Maaya Chesave
June 15th, 2010 at 4:50 AM (#)
I think this song was shot at Pittsburgh temple. That one is white like the one in the song this temple seems to be golden
June 16th, 2010 at 7:31 AM (#)
Hi mit2,
No, we have been to the Pittsburgh temple and we can confidently say that this song was not shot at that temple. Plus, we also paused the song as we were playing and compared it against a HQ picture of the temple from Flickr. It perfectly matched. So, I guess the information here is correct