Place · film production complex · India
Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad
Also known as Ramoji Film City, RFC
The 2,000-acre film production complex 30 kilometres east of Hyderabad, opened in 1996 by the Telugu media magnate Ramoji Rao as the subcontinent's largest and the world's largest contiguous film studio complex. The site holds 500 standing sets across Mughal, Victorian, Rajasthan, Bombay streetscape, hospital, airport and village forms, and functions as both an active production facility (handling about 50 films at any given time) and a tourist destination. The complex has shaped the Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and international film production industries' location preferences since the late 1990s.
- Date
- 1991–1996
- Function
- Arts & performance
- Patron dynasty
- Ramoji Group
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 17.254, 78.681
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- Site withinHyderabad
Ramoji Film City sits 30 kilometres east of Hyderabad in the Nalgonda district, within the greater Hyderabad metropolitan region. The 2,000-acre film production complex opened in 1996 is the subcontinent's largest and the world's largest contiguous film studio complex, and has made Hyderabad the Telugu, Tamil and Hindi film industries' location preference.