Noida Film City

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Noida Film City is the campus of Marwah Films & Video Studios and the Asian Academy of Film & Television. It is located in NOIDA, India.

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The sprawling 100-acre (0.40 km²) Film City was established by Sandeep Marwah in 1987. The studio includes over 25 acres of indoor soundstages. The surrounding landscape, set on the banks of the Yamuna river, includes a Massoori village on the Ghaziabad-Hapur stretch, gardens, a toll road, a mud village, the native village of the five Pandavas, palaces, swimming pools, golf clubs, mosques, and churches for spiritual and religious backdrops, offers a wide range of choice for a number of diverse outdoor shooting requirements.

Though just over a decade old, the Film City has been a host to a number of shootings for various feature films; both for the mainstream Bollywood cinema and for a large number of regional films made in Hindi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Kashmiri and other Indian languages.

Owing to its proximity to the Doordarshan (the Prasar Bharti transmission headquarters in New Delhi), and a large number of private broadcasting and transmitting stations that have moved to the NCR region, the Film City has become a first choice for shooting television serials, news and other entertainment-cum-education programs for various channels.

The Film City is also a gateway to NOIDA's twin brother Greater Noida; which has developed as an ultra-modern industrial township, evincing interest from large globally established multinational corporations and other corporate houses promising international standards of living. Large-scale activity in all these studios, outdoor locales provided by the Film City, and the twin cities of Noida and Greater Noida has already put it on the world map of filmmaking.

For the wide range of news, views, and current affairs programs being shot there, the Film City continues to attract a host of politicians, bureaucrats, and celebrities from practically every walk of life, making it one of the most sought-after centers of VIP visits. Foreign delegations and filmmakers from abroad are drawn to the Film City for their interest in studying its success story, and for exploring the possibilities of various collaborative joint ventures and culture exchange programs with the like-minded Indian media houses there.

The Film City Noida which is the part of GAUTAM BUDH NAGAR has been selected as the venue for the 5th biggest film festival of india from this year 2007,where films are invited from all over the world to participate in GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON PEACE AND SPIRITUALITY.Sixty four offices have been launched from film city to promote this world event.