his innovative money-making enterprise in bollywood was securing reliable , white-faced , non-indian extras , at short notice , for the judicious placing ( like pot-plants or , say , rustically weathered outdoor furniture ) , in the background of those scenes supposed to be set anywhere else other than the mumbai back streets where they actually were filmed , even though many bollywood productions had the budgets and black-market funding to shoot on location , even overseas ( switzerland always seemed a good idea to producers needing to launder their mafia money , for some odd reason ) .