Mithun's Dream Factory is an Indian film studio based in

Ooty Ooty (), officially known as Udhagamandalam (also known as Ootacamund (); abbreviated as Udhagai), is a city and a municipality in the Nilgiris district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located north west of Coimbatore and so ...

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three ...

left the

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based film industry in the early 1990s as he shifted his base to

to concentrate on his hotel business. He set up a hotel in Ooty and chose to act only in films which were shot at Ooty and nearby locales. This strategy paid off as the film crew could stay in his hotel, the Monarch, for discounted rates, and complete the film in a single schedule. Chakraborty's limited budget movies soon started flowing, as every month saw a Chakraborty release. These movies were profitable, but were often ignored by critics and were categorized as

B movies A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature ...

(

low-budget A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the mainstream circuit with inexperienced or ...

films). He paid more tax than anyone else in the

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...

film industry in the country between 1995 and 1999. Chakraborty also holds the record of appearing in the highest number of Hindi films as hero (over 250 films).

Selected filmography

Snippets

''India Today Magazine'' printed an article in which it referred to Chakraborty as "The

(

) King". ''SCREEN Weekly'' carried a cover story calling him "Mithun - The Miracle Man", both covering the Ooty-based film production phenomenon. ''Outlook Magazine'' mentioned the same. '' Filmfare Magazine'' in May 1998 published the same phenomenon under the title "Believe it or not... The unusually - safe suthri story of Mithun Chakraborty". Rediff addressed Chakraborty as "That indefatigable Movie Machine". Director

T L V Prasad T. L. V. Prasad is an Indian film director who predominantly worked in Hindi and Telugu cinema.. He is the director of nearly 70 Hindi films and 35 Telugu films. He also directed a few films in Bengali. Career He is the son of noted Telugu d ...

made more than 25 Chakraborty films.

References

* http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020315/fcover1.html * http://www.india-today.com/itoday/09031998/cinema.html * http://wearethemovies.com/forum/index.php?topic=293.0;wap2 Indian film studios {{film-studio-stub