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Mumbai is about to host one of the biggest Hollywood events the city has seen. Christopher Nolan is set to fly in this July. Matt Damon and Tom Holland will travel with him. The three are coming for the India premiere of “The Odyssey.”
Universal Pictures International has placed Mumbai on the official premiere circuit for “The Odyssey.” London, Paris and New York are the other three stops on the tour. This will be the first time a Christopher Nolan film gets an official premiere in India.
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The screening will be held at PVR Icon IMAX inside Phoenix Palladium in Lower Parel. Producer Emma Thomas, who shares an Academy Award with Nolan, is also expected to attend. The film opens in theatres worldwide on July 17.
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Advance bookings are already live. Premium recliner seats for the premiere screening were priced at three thousand three hundred rupees. The exact date for the Mumbai event has not been announced yet, which has only added to the anticipation among fans.
Nolan’s India story began in Jodhpur
Nolan’s bond with India did not start with this premiere. He filmed a sequence of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Jodhpur in 2012. The shoot was short, but it stayed with him. He later said the brief stint left him wanting to come back and shoot something bigger.
That chance came a few years later.
The 2018 trip for celluloid film
In 2018, Nolan travelled to Mumbai over the Easter weekend for a campaign called “Reframing the Future of Film.” The cause was close to him: preserving celluloid film at a time when digital formats were taking over.
During that visit, he met Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Kamal Haasan to talk about cinema. He spoke about wanting to understand the Indian film industry better. He also mentioned watching Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” for the first time and calling it one of the best films ever made.
‘Tenet’ brought him back To Mumbai
A year after that trip, Nolan returned to shoot “Tenet.” His crew spent five days filming across Mumbai. The locations included Breach Candy Hospital, Cafe Mondegar, Colaba Causeway, Colaba Market, Gateway of India, Grant Road, the Royal Bombay Yacht Club and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
Nolan has described Mumbai as one of the most extraordinary looking cities in the world. He pointed to its architecture, its people and the energy on its streets. He has also spoken about his admiration for Hindi cinema, saying it holds on to a sensory, emotional quality that Hollywood has lost in places.
Tom Holland’s earlier red carpet moment
This is not Tom Holland’s first trip to India either. He visited in early 2023 for the launch of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. He walked the red carpet alongside his now wife and Spider-Man co-star Zendaya.
In “The Odyssey,” Holland plays Telemachus, the son of Matt Damon’s character. The role marks his first major collaboration with Nolan.
Matt Damon’s India connection runs deeper than film
Damon’s link to India has little to do with movie sets. He co-founded Water (dot) org, a nonprofit working on clean water and sanitation access. India has long been a major focus area for the group’s work.
By 2013, microloans arranged through the organisation had helped more than five hundred thousand people across eleven Indian states get water and sanitation services. Damon has spoken before about how this kind of access changes daily life for women, freeing up time they would otherwise spend fetching water or dealing with the lack of a toilet at home.
On “The Odyssey,” Damon plays Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. He recently called it the hardest film he has ever made, pointing to Nolan’s habit of shooting everything for real, without relying on green screens.
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