Film Cities In India

The Film City Of India has a huge impact on social media, it produces the largest featured films, around 800 to 1800 or more films annually. These films are in various Indian dialects from major cities of India. The major film cities in India include the following: 

• Mumbai, 

• Chennai, 

• Kolkata, 

• Hyderabad, 

• Kochi, 

• Bangalore, 

• Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, and 

• Guwahati, are the top-notch centers of production of films in India.

The figures of films produced annually (mentioned above) are double that Hollywood works on. With large figures of production, the Indian Cinema has earned the title of being the World’s largest film city.

Like Holywood, India has its own film industry called Bollywood. Bollywood has a paramount share in the Indian film industry that focuses on Hindi-language films, with its headquarters in Mumbai. Mumbai is the City known as the Film City Of India. There is a big list of top film cities in India, which we will discuss on this page along with the largest film city of India. We will also discuss Facts on 10 Things We Should About Indian Cinema.

India is mad about films. Movie making is a profitable business here and on average, about 14 million people love to watch movies at theatres, and around 4 billion tickets are sold annually. Though Bollywood is regarded as the identity of Indian Cinema, regional cinema has also marked its own presence, like film city Uttar Pradesh. 

The most prominent film dialects are the Kashmiri, Bangla, Bhojpuri, and Maharashtrian film industries. South Indian Cinema such as Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil Nadu, and Telugu film industries – has its own version of a variety of films and therefore, a thriving business with shorter duration of movie earns South Indian film industries a good budget, this profit interests many Bollywood stars to act in South movies.

We confer that there is no surprise that a big nation like India holds 4 film cities. The Biggest Film Industry In India being Ramoji Film City, located in Andhra Pradesh. 

List of Top Film Cities in India: Top 5: Film Cities in India

Below is the top 5 Film Cities In India:

• Ramoji Film City

• Mumbai Film City

• MGR Film City, and

• Noida Film City

• Innovative Film City, Bengaluru

Now, let us go through all the film cities in the country.

Ramoji Film City: Largest Film City In India

Ramoji Film City is the World’s largest film city in India. It was certified by Guinness Books for being the World’s Largest Film Studio Complex.

In the year 1966, Ramoji Film City was launched. It is situated 60 km from the city of Hyderabad and known to be spaced out across 2000 acres. Besides providing picturesque film shooting landscapes and technologically advanced pre and post-production and processing laboratories, it also stages the following things:

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• The state-of-the-art Concerns, 

• Events, 

• Beauty pageants, 

• Corporate meetings, and 

• New product launches.

Along with these facilities, this film city has its presence in over 500 locations and can cater to 20 international films at the same time. Around 40 Indian films can be produced simultaneously in the complex managed by a workforce of 6,000 individuals. The huge arrangement of production services includes Maya, the set design and construction division, Parade, the props, and costumes division, and the first-class accommodation and catering services. 

This film city also holds of backup inventory of 10,000 objects, such as;

• pillars, 

• cornices, 

• brackets molds, 

• domes and dado designs, 

• An accomplished workforce of 500 personnels of Maya design and execute miniatures of any setting.

The area of the film city is surrounded by hills, lakes, fountains, pathways that offer excellent landscapes for shooting films. The sets range from Japanese gardens to the frightful jungle of Africa to the fascinating architecture of Paris to the miniature Taj Mahal. 

Various landscapes, costumes, antiques, furniture, paintings give the tourists to explore different eras originating from the stone age to contemporary times, like the Mauryan art and the architecture will take you on an odyssey to ancient India. Likewise Hollywood’s Universal Studios, Ramoji Film City marks its impression as a theme park.

Mumbai Film Industry: The Biggest Film City in India

The film city in Mumbai is called the largest film city where dreams come true especially for those pursuing their career in Bollywood. The foremost popular film studio, film city Goregaon Mumbai is situated in Goregaon East, within the vicinity of Aarey Colony. The hub of the filmmaking industry in India and therefore the largest movie industry within the world, Bollywood may be a phenomenon in itself. 

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The Mumbai film city embarked on its successful journey in 1911 with the release of the first-ever silent Indian feature. The booming Bollywood industry accounts for 250 studios in Mumbai alone. The film city, earlier a studio built by Dada Saheb Phalke, was reconstructed and reworked by the government later. Exotic locales are well amalgamated into this sprawling film city. The Masala movies produced by the film city have led to the nurturing of fresh thoughts and concepts.

The Film City is well furnished with colossal studios for indoor shootings, a recording room, a theatre, and facilities like a garden, lakes, ground for fighting scenes, helipads, etc. for outdoor shooting. The plan for this Film City was prepared and executed under the able guidance of V. Shantaram, the veteran actor, director, and filmmaker. Dadasaheb Phalke was the primary filmmaker of Bollywood shooting in the Film City of Bombay together with his first film, ‘Raja Harishchandra’ and since then everything is simply a History with all new equipment giving Black and White movies a replacement Colour. 

The Film City in Mumbai isn't open to the public without prior permission. Film City is definitely accessible from the Western Express Highway and therefore the nearest stations are Goregaon & Malad (Western Railway).

MGR Film City - Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran Film City

The MGR Film City was built in 1994 in honor of a huge icon and popular idol of Tamil Cinema and former Chief Minister, M.G. Ramachandran. Built over 70 acres at Taramani in Chennai, the MGR Film City is an admired tourist spot and therefore the best location for several South Indian films. This film city features the following places: 

• The film school, 

• Indoor and outdoor shooting locations,

• Replicas of village and concrete areas, 

• Temple, 

• Church, 

• Mosque, 

• Post office, 

• Police headquarters, 

• Prison, 

• Courtroom, and landscaped gardens in Italian, Japanese and Mughal styles. The newly opened MGR Knowledge Park adds to the attraction.

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A charismatic actor and philanthropist, M.G. Ramachandran commanded the idolatrous (someone who worships an idol or idols) adulation of many Tamilians and served as Tamil Nadu’s CM from 1977 to 1987. His achievements in three fields, such as films, philanthropy, and politics were astounding. 

Noida Film City 

The Noida Film City was established by Sandeep Marwah in 1987, and it covers around 100 acres of land wherein 25 acres is roofed with only the indoor studio. The Film City has been variety to a number of shootings for various feature films, both for the mainstream Bollywood cinema and for an outnumbered regional films made in various languages, like Hindi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Kashmiri and other Indian languages. Due to its proximity to the Doordarshan (the Prasar Bharti transmission headquarters in New Delhi), and an outsized number of personal broadcasting and transmitting stations that have moved to the NCR region, the Film City has become a primary choice for shooting television serials, news and other entertainment-cum-education programs for various channels.

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Innovative Film City

This film city is located on the outskirts of the city of Bengaluru. 

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Innovative film city covers several shooting locations such as;

• Cartoon City, 

• Aqua Kingdom, 

• Dino Park, 

• Mini Golf, 

• Petting Zoo, 

• Haunted Mansion, 

• Innovative Talkies

• Mirror Maze.

This film city also has numerous museums, like:

• Fossil Museum, 

• Wax Museum, Tribal Museum, and 

• Oddities Museum.

Important Things to Know About Indian Cinema: Facts and Information

• Recent Highlight: The construction of Noida Film City is a major project of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath. He recently stated that soon Noida Film City will start in January 2022.

• Kisan Kanya was the first-ever colored movie of the Indian Cinema, made in 1937.

• In the year 1931, Aganthuk was Satyajit Ray's last film, for which he was awarded the Oscar Award for Lifetime Achievement. Satyajit was born in Calcutta city, and he was basically a Bengali filmmaker. Some of his well-known movies were Charulatha, Aparajitho, etc.

• The Court Dancer: Raj Narkati was the first Indian English film whose first release was under the British Raj, i.e., 1940.

• Dada Saheb Phalke was the father of Indian Cinema, he was the director, producer, and writer. Devika Rani Chaudhri was the first woman to be awarded the DadaSaheb Phalke Award in 1969.

• Among all the film cities in India, only Andhra Pradesh State has maximum cinema halls that produce more movies, when compared with other Indian films industries.

• The National Film Awards were constituted in 1954.

• NFAI (National Film Archive Of India), Pune is a media unit of the Indian film industry established under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in February 1964. NFAI Pune is also a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (or FIFA).