Auto-Flush Toilets Fluster Film Crew

BOMBAY, India – There was a comedy, and there were toilets. But any humor was purely unintentional.

An Indian film crew shooting the recently released “Lage Raho Munnabhai,” or “Keep At It, Munnabhai,” ran into trouble when filming in a snazzy blue and white tiled restroom in a popular suburban mall. The problem: automatically flushing urinals.

Every time stars Sanjay Dutt or Arshad Warsi completed their shot and walked past a urinal, it would flush, interrupting the shoot.

“At one point, with so many unit members inside the loo, all the flush sensors went berserk and started flushing simultaneously!” recalled Director Raju Hirani in a statement to reporters. “We actually had to vacate the loo briefly to stop the urinals from flushing.”

In the movie Dutt plays a Bombay gangster who is helped by his friend, Warsi, in his romantic pursuit of a woman.