The English scenes were shot on country estates outside London. Other scenes were shot in Jaipur`s beautiful Rambagh Palace Hotel, with its courtyards, minarets, fountains and pools, once the home of Indian royalty. I didn`t care if I got sick.'' (In fact, she fell ill from sunstroke during her three days off.) Still, she said, ''To be able to work in the Amber Fort, where you have a view that looks about 12,000 years old, covered with dust, old and silent-I`d never seen anything like that. You can get sick just being out in the streets of India because the country is covered with dust.'' ''I was lucky, I didn`t have to work a lot on the back streets of Jaipur where they have open sewers,'' said Sara, ''and where it`s very easy to get ill. Part of the story takes place in Calcutta, but the city of 17 million was too crowded for filming, so producers reconstructed the streets of Old Calcutta in Jaipur, known as the ''Pink City,'' for the `30s segment of the series. When you`re making a film there and things need to get done quickly, this can pose a problem.'' ''It requires a lot of energy and effort because it operates on a different sort of time. ''India is an amazing place,'' said Sara with characteristic teenage enthusiasm (she turns 20 on June 19).
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