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Mumbai Film City
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Mumbai is the hub of Indian film industry. Mumbai has played a pivoted role in the development of cinematography. The first feature film Raja Harishchandra was produced in the city by Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian Cinema. Since then Mumbai has remained a main centre of Indian Film Industry for a period of a century. To provide facilities and concessions to the film industry the State Government has built a Film City at Goregaon.
The Film City is located away from the city life, on a secluded peace of land in the vicinity of Aarey Colony.The Film City is well equipped with large studios for indoor shootings, recording room, a theater, and facilities like garden, lakes, ground for fighting scenes, helipads etc. for outdoor shooting.
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The plan for this Film City was prepared and executed under the able guidance of late V. Shantaram, the veteran actor, director and film producer. The Film City is not open to admission without a prior permission.
Mumbai is the center of India's huge Hindi film industry, producing 120 feature films a year. Much of the glamour associated with the city stems from its celebrated position as the dream-factory of the nation. The local film industry is known as Bollywood. It's a ragtag speculative trade, flush with black money and low on innovation. The films it produces tend to be spectacular melodramatic fantasies. They are known disparagingly as 'masala movies' because they are made to an established formula that mixes a variety of ingredients - action, violence, music, dance, romance and moralizing - into one outrageous blend. While plenty of thought- provoking 'artistic' Indian films are appreciated in the west, masala movies are largely viewed with contempt. It's not hard to figure out why. Stock characters, exaggerated acting, self-conscious editing, implausible, narratives and heroines who burst into song every five minutes are just the beginning of a long list of unlikely features that you are going to have to accept at face value if you want to enjoy a Bollywood flick. Despite being dismissed as escapist claptrap, plenty of masala movies get their narrative drive from social issues like communalism, ethnicity and caste. Many also address the effects of modernization and urbanization on traditional Indian institutes such as the family and marriage. As you'd expect from any vibrant cultural form, masala movies are a reflection of India's social and political milieu. This doesn't diminish their appeal or (thank goodness) unduly imbue them with profundity, but it does mean they have an astonishingly direct feed into the lives of their audiences that outsiders may find hard to fathom. On the surface it may be Rambo, Romeo and Robin Hood, but the subtext is likely to be the Mahabharata, dharma, and social justice. In this context , it's not surprising that masala movies have been one of the most potent forces shaping Indian ideas of nationhood.
Places Of Interest
The Film City is located away from the city life, bollywood films shooting is done in the film city so you can visit the sets of various bollywood films by getting prior permission .If you are lucky you can even get a chance to meet and see bollywood stars there are multiple places which you would certainly find interesting.
How To Reach There
Air -Many International and domestic airlines connect Mumbai with all major tourist centres in India and rest of the world.
Rail - Regualr trains connect it with all major cities like Aghamedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Calcutta, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Madras, Nagapur and Trivandrum.
Road - Mumbai is connected by good motorable roads with all major tourist centres
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