The crew and cast of Hollywood film Heartland, minus the energetic Divya Dutta, descended upon the city on Thursday for the film’s shooting. Newsline stole a few moments with the stars to get an insight in to what the film has in store for us.

Talking about his experiences, actor Reg Grant who plays a Texas farmer and father to Hollywood damsel Amelia Jackson Gray in the film, says, “Men of the soil everywhere and anywhere in the world are the same be it Punjab or Texas. They are made of grit, determination and above all a lot of hard work.”

Comparing his country and Punjab, Grant remarked: “Texas and Punjab, both are primarily agriculture based.” On a lighter note, the actor added: “It is the same just as there is no difference between me and Prem Chopra, who is a Punjabi farmer while I am a Texan farmer.”

Bollywood’s original villain, Prem Chopra, who is also going the Hollywood way at the ripe old age of 74, plays a tough Punjabi farmer in the film. “This is a multicultural film a story line of what happens when Americans and Indians meet and that too robust farming communities of both nations,” Chopra beamed.

Chopra, who has essayed roles in several Hindi and Punjabi films, added that he accepted the role “not because of the Hollywood tag, rather it was the script that attracted me.”

The veteran actor delves a little deeper, “The settings in Punjab and Texas are both different and similar. They are different in the sense that they are places in different geographically and they are similar because the people of these countries cannot leave their soil, their homeland for anything. It goes the same for Reg’s and my character in the film.”

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