Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Ramoji Film City

Ramoji Film City (RFC) (RFC) is the world’s largest integrated film studio complex, at nearly 2,000 acres. It is also one of Asia’s most popular tourism and recreation centres. Opened in 1996, it is located about 25 km from Hyderabad, India. Established by the Ramoji Group, RFC offers comprehensive and international-standard pre-production, production, and post-production resources for film makers.

RFC offers over 500 set locations. Twenty international films, and nearly forty Indian films can be produced simultaneously in the complex. It has attracted not only filmmakers from southern India and Bollywood, but also producers from Hollywood. The RFC 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.

Every year, over a million tourists visit the complex.

Ramoji Film City has ousted Hollywood studios to earn a place in the Guinness World Records as the world's largest film studio complex.

Ramoji Rao (Cherukuri Rama Rao), an Indian media baron, is the head of the Ramoji Group. He is an entrepreneur who has set standards in the print, television and the film industry. It was in 1974, that he started Eenadu, a Telugu news Daily from Vishakapatnam. It was an instant success, followed by many editions of the newspaper in different places. Later he diversified his group into food products, hotels, financial services, advertising, handicrafts, and many other industries.

He is also heading group of ETV infotainment channels. With 12 channels in regional languages of India, ETV has the largest news-reporting network in India, at the grassroot level. Managed by Newstoday Private Limited.

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