Inqlings: Getting the subcontinental drift

Philly just landed its second Bollywood flick.

Mumbai's Dharma Productions, taking advantage of Pennsylvania film-tax credits and a weak dollar, is setting up for the November shoot of a still-untitled romantic thriller starring real-life couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

Asked about locations, producer Mitu Bhowmick Lange told me that the Indian filmmakers are running into a challenge, of sorts. "You can put the camera anywhere and it's great," she said. "There's history and there's modern and it's cosmopolitan."

Meanwhile, Philly's first-ever Bollywood production will be filming for a month more.

Yesterday, director Kabir Khan had whirring helicopters and jacketed FBI agents swarming around 16th and Market Streets for a scene set at a fake FBI office. Khan's untitled film for Mumbai's Yash Raj Films stars John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Neil Nitin Mukesh.

Also in the production department:

The trades say Jamie Foxx will be here next month to play a vigilante opposite good guy Gerard Butler in the Frank Darabont-directed flick Law Abiding Citizen.

The city's Mural Arts Program will be filmed as part of a new HGTV show that Nancy Glass Productions is filming here and in Bethesda, Md., Trenton and Fairfield, Conn. Several murals and artists will help paint a new mural in a rec center. Host is Jennifer Bertrand, winner of the third season of HGTV's Design Star.

Scenes from A Sicilian Tale, an independent mob-themer that's just about wrapped, will be previewed today (2 to 7 p.m.) at a public ($35-a-head) cast party at the Savoy in Pennsauken, the former Woodbine Inn. On the guest list are actors Vinny Vella, Artie Pasquale, Sal Darigo, Sonny Vellozzi, Bob Bizik, Stan Jacobs, Joe Polito, creator Frank Lisi and sports talker Brian Startare. Polito says the film should be finished by December so it can enter the festival circuit.

Center City's

Anne Mahlum

- who created the nonprofit Back on My Feet to help the homeless gain self-esteem through running - is one of 10 "CNN Heroes." (The cable net received 4,000 entries from 75 countries.) Each hero will get $25,000, and the public will vote for the "CNN Hero of the Year," which will carry a $100,000 grant. The awards show will be taped next month and will be shown at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

"I don't believe in individual awards," says Mahlum, deflecting praise. "I'm just grateful that people took to the idea and believed in me. . . . I don't think of myself as a hero. I'm just trying to do what's right."

The program, which Mahlum started on a shoestring, is due to spread to Baltimore next year.

Critic

John Mariani

, whose list of best new restaurants for Esquire mag is the Fall Classic among foodies, has picked two Philadelphia restaurants for the first time: Zahav,

Michael Solomonov

and

Steven Cook

's refined Israeli spot at Society Hill Towers, and Distrito, the lively Mexican in University City from

Jose Garces

. (Mariani also picked Garces' new Chicago restaurant Mercat a la Planxa.) The November issue is due out Tuesday.

Rob Guarino

, whose Fox29 contract ran out in December, has landed the morning weather job at the ABC station in Albuquerque, N.M. He'll start Oct. 27. Guarino, 44, a Delawarean, founded MyWeatherLive.com.

CBS3's Doug Kammerer has been picking up morning weather work since Maria LaRosa went on maternity leave last month. (She had son number two.) Christa Quinn, who calls highs and lows on the related CW Philly Wake Up News, is expecting her first baby, a girl, on Nov. 10.

Stephanie Aldrich has been named anchor of WHYY's Delaware Tonight (5:30 p.m.), replacing Rob Stewart. Aldrich, wife of Fox29 weekend weatherman David Aldrich, started at WHYY as a freelancer in 2006.

Lori Delgado's face will be smiling upon westbound Schuylkill Expressway motorists for a while longer. Though the morning anchor quit last week, NBC10 is locked into a lease for the billboard just west of City Avenue advertising the morning crew, including Terry Ruggles and Bill Henley. Aditi Roy is filling in on the morning desk, sending Kristen Welker to replace Roy on weekend evenings.

Talk has Kidd Chris, fired in May from WYSP-FM (94.1), turning up on the air in his former town of San Antonio, Texas. So far, it's just talk.

A tale of two . . . Cherry Hill high school grads. West's

Aaron Lazar

(Class of 1994) and East's

James Barbour

(Class of 1984) share the Broadway stage and fight over the same woman in

A Tale of Two Cities

. Lazar plays Charles Darnay, while Barbour is Sydney Carton. Coincidentally,

Tale

is on the reading list of Cherry Hill Township sophomores.

Another round for

Jose Canseco

? The former baseballer, soundly defeated in the ring in July by NBC10's

Vai Sikahema

, is looking for an opponent for a Jan. 10 bout. Promoter

Damon Feldman

is offering a $5,000 purse; potential challengers can e-mail him at

» READ MORE: fightcanseco@aol.com

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Two former Eagles, trying to sell their Moorestown cribs, are feeling the economic pinch. The asking price on Terrell Owens' place just dropped to $2,675,000, and Jevon Kearse's has been marked down to $2,452,500. And regarding a current Eagle living in Moorestown: Public records show that the real estate tax assessment for Donovan McNabb shot from $628,800 in 2007 to $1,332,100 in 2008.