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DAY 2

Wednesday 9 May 2018

Facts &

figures

● Area: India measures 3,214
km from north to south and
2,933 km from east to west
with a total land area of
3,287,263 sq km.
● Population: 1.3 billion
● N° of States and Union
Territories: 29 States, 7 © DR
Union Territories
Yash Raj Films’ blockbuster Tiger Zinda Hai
● Capital: New Delhi
● Languages: Hindi, English
and 21 other national
languages.
FIVE FILMS TO LOOK ● Number of feature films
India is also one of the most liberated media markets in produced in India: 2,000
the world. The highly liberal policy environment in the FORWARD TO IN 2018 ● Number of screens in India:
country for investments in the film sector, establishment 9,500
of the Film Facilitation Office (FFO) by the Ministry of ● Number of digital screens: All
Information & Broadcasting as a single-window clearance RACE 3 (HINDI) screens are digital screens
for shooting across India, and the ease of doing business Director: Remo D’Souza • Starring: Salman Khan, Jacqueline ● Market share of local films:
has become the mantra in the country, making India a very Fernandez, Bobby Deol • Producer: Ramesh S. Taurani 87% BO
attractive destination for film business. • Banner: Tips Industries • Release Date: June 15, 2018 ● Theatrical box office
Ease of filming in India is the buzzword across 29 film- SANJU (HINDI) collections: $2.25bn
friendly states in India. The Ministry of Information & Direction: Rajkumar Hirani • Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam ● Film-friendly States of India
Broadcasting, Government of India, has set up the FFO Kapoor, Dia Mirza, Paresh Rawal • Producers: Vidhu Vinod for film locations: Madhya
with a view to promote and facilitate shooting by foreign Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani • International Sales: Fox Star Studios Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,
filmmakers in India. FFO acts as a facilitation point for • Release Date: June 29, 2018 Gujarat, Kerala,
filmmakers in assisting them to get requisite permissions Uttarakhand, Maharashtra
while providing information on shooting locations as well THUGS OF HINDOOSTAN ● Major centres of film
as the talent, resources and facilities available for Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya • Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, production: Bangalore,
production and post production. It proactively works Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif • Producer: Aditya Chopra Chennai, New Delhi,
• International Sales: Yash Raj Films • Release Date:
closely with various Central and State Government November 2018 Guwahati, Hyderabad,
Agencies to create a film-friendly environment. Kolkata, Mumbai,
Many State Governments in India are aggressively wooing 2.0 (TAMIL, HINDI, TELUGU) Thiruvanathapuram,
global filmmakers. International filmmakers have also Director: S. Shankar • Producer: Allirajah Subaskaran Cuttack
experienced that it is now possible to replicate Mandarin • Starring: Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson ● TV households: 183 million
China in Kolkata’s downtown, Afghanistan in the rugged • Banner: Lyca Productions • Release Date: November 2018 ● TV channels: 850
mountains of Ladakh, Jamaica in feisty Goa, the Arabian ● Mobile subscribers: 1 billion
nights in Jodhpur — all can be shot to perfection. SIMMBA ● Smart phone users: 400
Not only are Bollywood actresses like Priyanka Chopra Director: Rohit Shetty • Staring: Ranveer Singh , Sara Ali Khan, million
Sonu Sood • Producer: Karan Johar • Banner: Dharma
and Deepika Padukone making their presence felt in Productions, Reliance Entertainment, Rohit Shetty Picturez ● Internet users: 500 million
American showbiz, a new breed of independent Indian • Release Date: December 2018 ● Broadband: No.1 mobile
filmmakers has abandoned stale narrative methods and broadband market in the
embraced new ways of telling stories. ✦ world

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