Film City
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Film City is an integrated film studio complex situated near Sanjay Gandhi National Park
at Goregaon, Mumbai in India
. It has several recording rooms, gardens, lakes, theatres and grounds that serve as the venue of many Bollywood
film shootings. It was built by the state government to provide facilities and concessions to the film industry. It was renamed Dadasaheb Phalke Nagar in memory of the Marathi
producer-director-screenwriter Dadasaheb Phalke
who was father of Indian film industry.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Sanjay Gandhi National Park , previously Borivali National Park, is a large protected area in the northern part of suburban Mumbai city in Maharashtra State in India...
at Goregaon, Mumbai in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It has several recording rooms, gardens, lakes, theatres and grounds that serve as the venue of many Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
film shootings. It was built by the state government to provide facilities and concessions to the film industry. It was renamed Dadasaheb Phalke Nagar in memory of the Marathi
Marathi cinema
Marathi cinema refers to films produced in the Marathi language in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is the oldest and pioneer film industry in India...
producer-director-screenwriter Dadasaheb Phalke
Dadasaheb Phalke
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the father of Indian cinema...
who was father of Indian film industry.
See also
- Noida Film CityNoida Film CityNoida Film City houses Marwah Films & Video Studios and the Asian Academy of Film & Television. It is located in Sector 16A NOIDA, India.-About Noida Film City:The sprawling Film City was established in 1987...
- Ramoji Film CityRamoji Film CityRamoji Film City is one of the world’s largest integrated film studio complexes at over of land, situated in India near Hayathnagar and Peddamberpet on Hyderabad. It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre, containing both natural and artificial attractions including an amusement park...
- Goregaon Film City, Mumbai
- Grace Acting Academy, Mumbai
External links
- Times Magazine: Best of Asia - Film City Bombay, India - Listed as best place to think of Stardom at TIMETimeTime is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....