From Bollywood To Buñol: The Tomatina Craze That Has Swept India

The 78th version of La Tomatina, held connected Wednesday 27 August, demonstrated really a caller capacity by an Indian character successful a movie depicting nan show has sparked a frenzy, pinch complete 1,000 visitors from India flocking to Buñol to return portion successful nan internationally renowned ‘Tomato Fight’.

La Tomatina has featured successful galore films produced worldwide. The astir recent, released this twelvemonth nether nan title Heads of State, dedicates nary little than nan first six minutes of nan movie to nan Buñol festival. The series stars Priyanka Chopra, nan Indian-born character of 1982, while successful nan background, crowds propulsion and smash tomatoes crossed a quadrate recreated to lucifer nan municipality of La Hoya de Buñol.

The show has drawn attraction from media outlets and visitors from crossed nan globe: China, Australia, England, nan Netherlands, India, Chile and galore more. All of them stitchery successful a mini municipality of conscionable 10,000 inhabitants to return portion successful nan tomato-throwing frenzy.

A Bollywood icon

Priyanka Chopra is simply a highly acclaimed character wrong India’s movie industry. She has starred successful galore Bollywood productions, yet her power stretches acold beyond her location country, pinch appearances successful respective US films. She has besides ventured into music, collaborating pinch rapper Pitbull connected nan way Exotic, which has amassed tens of millions of streams crossed platforms. At 43, she is simply a starring fig successful India and a wide recognised celebrity, arsenic evidenced by nan effect she had connected this year’s Tomatina among her chap countrymen.

World celebrated celebration

The unsocial and accepted Buñol Tomatina has besides near its people connected different films, gaining world recognition. Year aft year, Buñol becomes nan attraction of world attraction for a fewer hours. The festival’s entreaty lies not only successful its spectacular, messy and acidic herb battles, but besides successful its predominant appearances connected nan metallic screen.

Spanish cinema has besides embraced nan festival. In 2011, a short movie recounted, pinch a humorous touch, nan origins of today’s well-established Buñol Tomatina. El punto rojo, directed by Carlos Sánchez Arévalo, transports viewers to 1945, telling nan communicative of Pepe, a herb enthusiast, and nan events that sparked nan now-famous celebration.