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EXCLUSIVE: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to meet members of film industry on Wednesday
Yogi Adityanath has been planning to set up a hi-tech film city in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. He will apparently discuss this plan and other related topics with the members of the film fraternity.
Uttar Pradesh's CM Yogi Adityanath has arrived in Mumbai for holding a few meetings with the members of the film fraternity. Now, we have exclusively learned that he will be in a meeting with the said members on Wednesday. Among those who will be attending the same are producers like Boney Kapoor Subhash Ghai, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Rahul Mitra including a few actors. However, the workers body of the FWICE has not been invited as the CM intends to generate employment for the locals.
It has been stated by a senior member that the agenda is to understand the demands of the film fraternity and incorporate them into the film city plan. Moreover, the main agenda is to invite them for shooting in the film city. Ravi Kishan, who also happens to be a Member of Parliament from Gorakhpur has been encouraging filmmakers from the Hindi and Bhojpuri fraternity to come and shoot at his constituency while claiming that it has some scenic locations best suited for films.
For the unversed, attractive incentives are offered to filmmakers who shoot 50 percent of their films in Uttar Pradesh. It is because of this that most of the Hindi films are shot there. As per the rule, if the filmmaker shoots 50 percent of his or her first film an amount of Rs 1 cr is given as subsidy which goes up to Rs 2 cr if he comes back to shoot his second film. Apart from that, special compensations are also given to those films whose actors hail from the state itself. Coming to the present context, Yogi Adityanath announced his plan for a film city back in September 2020.
He had stated that efforts will be made for making it the best Dedicated Infotainment Zone in the country. He also stated that High Capacity, World-Class data Centre along with all pre-production and post-production infrastructure, processing labs, VFX and digital technology of international level will be provided in this zone. That will be done keeping in mind the present trend of OTT and Media Streaming Platforms. The CM earlier also said, "We have locations, we have cultural diversity, and we have the manpower and now the film city with state-of-the-art facilities. This is an ideal case for a Film City in Uttar Pradesh." He has further stated that the policies of Industries will be applicable for the takers and the Single Window Mechanism will be used to facilitate those who want to go there and set up their studios. While mentioning the state government's Film Policy-2018 that already has some talking provisions, he added that the government will take those into consideration the proposals put forward by the film fraternity.
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