By Baiju NT [ April 22, 2009 ]
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Mollywood goes hi-tech

Art director Kailasa Rao and businessmen Sudeer Babu and Raju Vayalatt will soon launch a hi-tech film city and film academy with state-of-the-art facilities in the place of the present Udaya Studio (established by the late Kunchako in 1947) at Pathirappally in Alappuzha.

To be known as Udaya Surya Hi-tech Film City, the new hi-tech film city will be the first of its kind in Mollywood. The estimated cost of the project is Rs. 3 crores.

Kailasa Rao, a native of Kuttanad, said that the new film city would have all the facilities considered necessary for making a modern movie. To name a few, it will have air-conditioned floors, facilities for spot dubbing, digitisation of films, editing, lab facilities, sound effect systems, cine-film transferring facility and song recording. All these facilities will be provided at very reasonable rates. "Above all, the studio will be available free of cost for the poojas of Malayalam movies," he added.

"At present, Malayalam film industry lacks the infrastructure to set up a hi-tech set within a studio for shooting song scenes. We depend mainly on studios in Chennai for this facility. However, our hi-tech film city will make these facilities available here itself," Rao said. The hi-tech film academy will give full-fledged training to aspirants in production, direction, acting, film-marketing, cinematography and other film-related activities.

The promoters are expecting the film academy and hi-tech film city to be completely operational by May 5, 2009. Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan will inaugurate this novel project. Union Minister Vayalar Ravi, Opposition leader Oommen Chandy, ministers M.A. Baby, P.K. Sreemathi, S. Sarma, G. Sudhakaran, K.P. Rajendran and actor Mammootty will be present at the inaugural function.

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