Monday morning saw Mumbai's train commuters taken by surprise when Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie decided to take a local train from Charni Road station to Churchgate.

Dressed informally in T-shirt and cargo pants, Angelina was accompanied by costar Dan Futterman (right) and several bodyguards.

The actress, along with Brad Pitt, is in the city for a week to shoot for the film A Mighty Heart, based on the life of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by Al Qaeda operatives in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002.

Text, photograph: Syed Firdaus Ashraf