The Prayag Film City, also known as the Midnapore Film City or Chandrakona Film City or Bengal film city is an integrated film city, located at
Chandrakona,
West Midnapore
Paschim Medinipur district or West Midnapore district (also known as Midnapore West) is one of the districts of the state of West Bengal, India. It was formed on 1 January 2002 after the Partition of Midnapore into Paschim Medinipur and Purba M ...
, 165 km from
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
. Built by the Prayag Group, over an area of 1,600 acres making it second-largest film city and costing . The mega size
integrated complex and a one-stop entertainment is to be opened to the public in two phases.
This is the first of its kind film-making arena in
Asia
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. The complex's first phase, designed by the noted art director
Nitish Roy, is opened to public from 15 April 2012. The official brand ambassador of the film city complex is
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 ...
star
Shahrukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan (; born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works in Hindi films. Referred to in the media as the " Baadshah of Bollywood", "King of Bollywood" ...
, who is also
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
's tourism brand ambassador.
A part of the location burned down in a large fire in March 2019.
See also
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Cinema of India
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Film and Television Institute of India
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State Institute of Film and Television
The State Institute of Film and Television (SIFTV) is a Film School under the State University of Performing And Visual Arts located in Rohtak, Haryana, India. The institute was established in 2011 by the Government of Haryana to grow regiona ...
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Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) is a film and television institute located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Named after Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, the institute provides higher and professional education and technical exp ...
References
External links
Prayag Group, Official Website
Indian film studios
Cinema of Bengal
Paschim Medinipur district
2012 establishments in West Bengal
Film production companies based in Kolkata
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