Wednesday, April 11, 2012

In India, the World’s Largest Movie Studio—and Its Colorful Films | Hollywood | Vanity Fair

In India, the World’s Largest Movie Studio—and Its Colorful Films | Hollywood | Vanity Fair: "For years, Bollywood, India’s Mumbai-based film industry, has been pumping out twice as many movies as Hollywood. But its southern rival, Tollywood (named for the local language, Telugu), is home to the largest studio complex on the planet—Ramoji Film City, a 1,666-acre, 47-soundstage, one-stop production facility in Hyderabad that is one of the country’s top tourist attractions. Meeting its chairman, Ramoji Rao, Pico Iyer explores India’s enduring fascination with epic scale, and Robert Polidori captures the splendor of this vast mythmaking machine."

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