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  • Author(s): Iyer, Pico
  • Source:
    Vanity Fair. Mar2012, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p356-384. 7p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      MOTION picture industry; RAMOJI Film City (Hyderabad, India); RAO, Ramoji
    • Subject Terms:
      HYDERABAD (India); INDIA
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on Tollywood, home to the studio Ramoji Film City (R.F.C.), a one-stop production facility in Hyderabad, India. The facility is one of India's largest tourist attraction under its chairman Ramoji Rao. The sound building has analog facilities and digital ones and its props building is full of religious statues and reverential portraits. People joining the daily tour will find realistic American gas stations and a huge statue of open thighs on an empty lawn.