 Entrance to Ramoji Film City |
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| Type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Hayathnagar, Hyderabad, India Indian NH9 Highway, near Hayathnagar |
| Key people | Ramoji Rao, Founder, Ramoji Group |
| Industry | Motion pictures |
| Owner(s) | Ramoji Rao |
| Parent | Ramoji Group |
| Website | www.ramojifilmcity.com |
Ramoji Film City (RFC) is the world’s largest integrated film studio complex at over 9,000 acres (36 km2) of land [1]. It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre, containing both natural and artificial attractions including an amusement park. It is situated near Hayathnagar and Peddamberpet on Hyderabad - Vijayawada, NH9 highway, about 25 km from Hyderabad. The Outer Ring Road Phase 2 has acquired lands at the entrance and is set to intersect the city.[2][3]
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History
Film producer Ramoji Rao, head of the Ramoji Group, opened the facility in 1996. The creation of the Ramoji Film City was an outcome of the Group's association with Indian cinema through Usha Kiron Movies, its dedicated film production house, which has produced over 80 films in several languages such as Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi and Bangla [4]
Studio features
Ramoji Film City offers pre-production, production, and post-production resources. It offers over 500 set locations. There are many gardens, authentic sets, about 50 studio floors, a digital film facility, the support systems, outdoor locations, high-tech laboratories, etc. The Film City's infrastructure includes custom-designed locations & mock-ups, set construction, properties & costumes, shooting stages, cameras and equipment, audio post-production, digital-post-production/SFX as well as film processing.
Twenty international films and forty Indian films can be produced simultaneously in the complex. It has attracted not only filmmakers from the country, but also producers from Hollywood.
Tourism
Every year, the studios attracts over a million tourists, and the complex creates revenues in billions of rupees (INR) [5]. Located at the entrance of the film city are the 3-star hotel, Tara and a 5-star hotel, Sitara for the film production units as well as for tourists. Once inside, there is Hawa Mahal, based along the lines of the Golconda Fort, which is on a hilltop from which one can have a bird’s eye view of the whole studio. The Film City provides honeymoon packages and banquet halls for corporate retreats and conventions.
Some of the places for tourists to visit include: a Japanese garden, the ETV planet (a multi-purpose editing suit), a pool, artificial waterfalls, an airport terminal, hospital set, railway station, churches, mosques and temples, shopping plazas, palace interiors, chateaus, rural complexes, urban dwellings, and a winding highway. Shops include Parade, a prop-shop, where costumes of actors can be ordered and Shangrila, a nursery that sells exotic plants.
The vintage Film City coaches shuttle visitors around the studios on a guided tour. There are several settings in the studios which lead the visitors from streets of the Mauryan Empire or the Mughal Empire or even the American Old West. There's also the famous Hollywood sign displayed on the hills at the studios.
Image gallery
 Entrance to the city |
 Delhi's Mughal gardens at RFC, one of the many gardens at the city |
 Vrindavan Garden, Mysore replicated at the city |
 Ramoji Film City - UK setting |
See also
References
- ^ "Ramoji Film City sets record". The Hindu. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/08/03/stories/2005080301301901.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-03.
- ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1709188.cms
- ^ "Guinness World Records certifies Ramoji Film City as the World's largest Film Studio Complex". Ramoji Film City. http://www.ramojifilmcity.com/tourist/abtrfc_guinessrecord.html. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ^ "About Ramoji Film City". http://www.ramojifilmcity.com/flash/film/About_Ramoji.html.
- ^ "On the Back Lot at the Other Bollywood". http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/travel/31journeys.html.
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