Cenotaph damaged during film shooting in Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer: Shooting of films at popular tourist palces in Jaisalmer has costed the monuments their original look. Due to carelessness of unit members during shooting of films, heritage monuments of Jaisalmer are suffering damages with their original appearance getting distorted.
On Monday, during the shooting of a Chinese film 'Lost of India', at Gadsisar Lake, a vehicle hit an artistic cenotaph causing its stone to fall down and leaving it damaged.After directions of district collector Vishwa Mohan Sharma, the municipal council is readying to lodge a case.
It is to be mentioned that four years ago, during a shooting sequence of film Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan starrer) at Kuldhara, the film unit had distorted the monuments, defacing their original look.
The Times of India had raised the issue post which, the then tourism minister Bina Kak taking strict action lodged a case with the film producers made to pay a fine of 3 lakh. Meanwhile, the current incident took place during the shooting of a Chinese film, and as per the information, this shooting had been going on for a week in Jaisalmer, with Wong Bau Chong as its film director. For last two days, shooting was going on at Gadsisar Lake in which action scenes were being shot. On Monday, during the shoot when a vehicle was reversing, it hit the cenotaph due to the carelessness of the driver and it got damaged.
On getting the information, municipal council employees and officers reached the spot and stopped the shooting. Municipal council commissioner Inder Singh Rathod said as per the directions from Sharma, a case will be lodged against the film producer, while 3,000 has been collected as penalty for repairing the cenotaph.