Jolie guard involved in scuffle in India

Angelina Jolie

NEW DELHI - An Indian security guard and a photographer were involved in a scuffle at the shooting of A Mighty Heart starring Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, an official said today.

Local media said the guard threatened the photojournalist in the latest of several incidents over the security detail of Jolie and companion-actor Brad Pitt who are in the western city of Pune where the film is being shot.

"There was an incident in which the security guard and the photographer beat each other up," Arti Surendranath of Kailash Picture Company, which is managing the shooting schedule in India, told Reuters.

"It was a mutual problem which they have sorted out," she said, denying that a revolver was pulled out by the guard belonging to a private firm.

Police said no charges had been filed in the incident.

A Mighty Heart is based on the life of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped in the Pakistani port city of Karachi and killed in 2002 while researching a report on the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The normally placid city of Pune has been caught up in excitement since the arrival of the celebrity couple this month and dozens of members of the paparazzi and other media have flocked to city to click the reclusive Hollywood couple.

Indian police stepped up security after a car in Oscar-winning Jolie's convoy on Wednesday hit a motorcyclist who was slightly hurt.

This followed an incident this month where a foreign security guard of the couple was photographed holding a cameraman by the scruff of the neck.

The film is being produced by Pitt.

- REUTERS