Film City on the lines of Hollywood Studios planned near Bangalore

A state-of-the-art Film City on the lines of Hollywood Studios has been planned on 300 acres of land the outskirts of Bangalore by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE), which is constructing an expressway between Bangalore and Mysore.

Managing Director of NICE Ashok Kheny told reporters that the yet-to-be-named Film City would be built near the Sompura-Clover Leaf junction on the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) expressway. The Film City will host more than 20 studios on the lines of Hollywood studios, he said.

“The sprawling 300-acre Film City will have everything to please top production houses of the world like 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Columbia Pictures, United Artistes, Pinewood Studios etc”, Kheny said.

The state-of-the-art studios will be centrally air-conditioned and have computerized lighting system, besides a live editing table with latest film cameras and cranes. “Each studio will house professional make-up and trial rooms to provide the user with ultimate comfort. The Film City will also host television series and shows. We will also have special studios for shooting advertisements”, he said.

Kheny said a separate studio for computer graphics and other technologies will also come up in the Film City. “Producers can walk in with unedited tapes and walk out with the finished products”, he said.

Kheny, who is having a running feud with Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy over acquisition of land for the BMIC project, said the Film City will give a major boost to the Indian film industry in general and Kannada film industry in particular. “More than 10,000 skilled and non-skilled jobs will be created by the Film City”, he said.

With a view to meeting the demand for qualified skilled technicians and actors, Kheny said he would set up a Film Institute and Training Centre in the Film City.