# What Is This Beautiful Building In India? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400 "2023-02-06T21:54:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/1 "2023-02-06T21:54:25Z")
Here. [Naacho Naacho (Full Video) RRR - NTR, Ram Charan | M M Kreem | SS Rajamouli | Vishal Mishra & Rahul - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzlWScHTc4) And bonus question: was it ever the site of dance-offs between revolutionaries and uptight British colonists? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/2 "2023-02-06T21:56:47Z")
I don’t know, but those guys are gonna have some serious knee problems when they get older. ---
**Author:** ![Kelby2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@Kelby2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby2)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/3 "2023-02-06T22:00:15Z")
Not sure, but those guys sure love their Mexican food appetizers. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/4 "2023-02-06T22:04:08Z")
Especially since nachos wouldn’t be invented until half a century later. But that movie plays fast and loose with the facts. Or so I read. What I don’t know about Indian colonial history could fill several libraries. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/5 "2023-02-06T22:09:30Z")
[Wiki tells me that building is](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naatu_Naatu) the [Mariinskyi Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariinskyi_Palace), the official residence of the President of Ukraine. As it is in Ukraine, I doubt there were any British colonists to engage in a dance off. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/6 "2023-02-06T22:12:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > As it is in Ukraine, I doubt there were any British colonists to engage in a dance off. Don’t be too sure. Those British colonists are, like, everywhere man. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/7 "2023-02-06T22:13:02Z")
So it was apparently in Ukraine: > **[Filming Location Matching "Mariyinsky Palace, Kyiv, Ukraine" (Sorted by...](https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=Mariyinsky%20Palace,%20Kyiv,%20Ukraine&ref_=ttloc_loc_3)** > > IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what you're looking for! It was based on an actual Raj-era palace where some act of defiance against the British took place, I’m guessing there was less dancing involved. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-beautiful-building-in-india/979400/8 "2023-02-06T22:35:41Z")
I beat you by four minutes. {Scroll up just a tad.} 😃