Muriwai Beach – New Zealand

Muriwai Beach – New Zealand

Muriwai, also called Muriwai Beach, is a coastal community located on the west coast of North Island, New Zealand. It is also home to a large colony of gannets. It is approximately 17 km West of Kumeu, 42 kilometres Northwest of Auckland city, at the southern end of an unbroken 50 kilometre stretch of beach which extends up the Tasman Sea coast to the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour

Bastion Point – Auckland, New Zealand

Bastion Point – Auckland, New Zealand

Bastion Point is a coastal piece of land in Orakei, Auckland, New Zealand, overlooking the Waitemata Harbour. The area has significance in New Zealand history for its role in 1970s Maori protests against forced land alienation by non Maori New Zealanders. The land was occupied by Ngati Whatua, in the period before the colonisation of New Zealand by the British Crown

Anse Source D’Argent Beach – La Digue, Seychelles

Anse Source D’Argent Beach – La Digue, Seychelles

Anse Source D’Argent, the second best beach in the Seychelles is also one of the most popular. The coastline is a series of small crescent pink sand beaches separated by gigantic granite boulders which are famous for their unusual curves worn by time and weather. The beach is sheltered by a reef, ideal for snorkeling and sun bathing. The calm waters make it perfect for the little ones

Vidhana Soudha – Bangalore

Vidhana Soudha – Bangalore

Vidhana Soudha, located in Bengaluru (Bangalore), is the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka. It is an imposing building, constructed in a style sometimes described as Neo-Dravidian, and incorporates elements of Indo-Saracenic and Dravidian styles. The construction was completed in 1956. Kengal Hanumanthaiah is credited with the conception and construction of the Vidhana Soudha

Auckland Harbour Bridge – Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland Harbour Bridge – Auckland, New Zealand

The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane box truss motorway bridge over the Waitemata Harbour, joining St Marys Bay in Auckland with Northcote in North Shore City, New Zealand. The bridge is part of State Highway 1 and the Auckland Northern Motorway. It is the second-longest road bridge in New Zealand, and the longest in the North Island of New Zealand

Westhaven Marina – Auckland, New Zealand

Westhaven Marina – Auckland, New Zealand

Westhaven Marina in Auckland, New Zealand, is the largest yacht marina in the Southern Hemisphere. The marina has nearly two thousand berths and swing moorings, and tends to be continually booked. Auckland, known as ‘City of Sails’, is generally known for its maritime passions. It is owned by Auckland City Council, which bought it from Ports of Auckland in 2004 for NZ$ 46 million.

Prior Park Landscape Garden – Bath, England

Prior Park Landscape Garden – Bath, England

Prior Park Landscape Garden is an 18th-century landscape garden, designed by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and now owned by the National Trust. It is south of Bath, Somerset, England by Ralph Allen Drive, and 1.2 km from the Kennet and Avon canal path. The garden was influential in defining the style of garden known as the “English garden”

Schadau Castle – Thun, Switzerland

Schadau Castle – Thun, Switzerland

Schadau Castle (German: Schloss Schadau) is a castle on the south side of the Aar near Lake Thun in the city of Thun, Canton Berne, Switzerland. It is situated in the Schaudaupark, and was built between 1846 and 1854 according to the plans of Pierre-Charles Dusillon in the Gothic Revival style, for the banker Abraham Denis Alfred de Rougemont. Since 1925 the castle has belonged to the city of Thun

Gateway of India – Mumbai

Gateway of India – Mumbai

The Gateway of India is a monument in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. Located on the waterfront in Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai, the Gateway is a basalt arch 26 meters high. It was a crude jetty used by fisher folks and was later renovated and used as a landing place for British governors and other distinguished personages. In earlier times, the Gateway was the monument that visitors arriving by boat would have first seen in the city of Bombay.

Keukenhof Tulip Fields – Netherlands

Keukenhof Tulip Fields – Netherlands

Keukenhof (“Kitchen garden”) also known as the Garden of Europe, is situated near Lisse, Netherlands, and is the world’s largest flower garden. Approximately 7,000,000 (seven million) flower bulbs are planted annually in the park, which covers an area of 32 hectares. Keukenhof has been the world’s largest flower garden for over fifty years now and counting

Kalyani Theertham – Melkote

Kalyani Theertham – Melkote

The Kalyani tank is at the base of the Yoga Narasimha temple, one of the 2 most popular temples of Melukote. There is also a pair of sister tanks called – Akka Tangi Kola, two near identical tanks built right next to each other. Melukote in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district, is one of the sacred places in Karnataka & is also known as Thirunarayanapuram.

Royagopura – Melkote

Royagopura – Melkote

This location comes to the clinching the spot as the one that has been used by Mani Rathnam the most number of times. But it is strange that we at wherewasitshot.com recognize this shooting location as the one that comes in the Superstar’s Padaiyappa. Remember those temple scenes in Padaiyappa, with first the Nadigar Thilagam and then the Superstar?