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Soon, Delhi will have six more locations for film shooting as the city governments tourism department has decided to throw open the capitals popular mobile repairing market, coaching areas and old Delhi Police headquarters at ITO to filmmakers...
The areas that made it to the list are old Delhi Police headquarters, Kalu Sarai Village, Pushpa Vihar sector-1 colony, Anglo-Arabic Senior Secondary school, Ajmeri Gate, Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh and Mukherjee Nagar...
We received a lot of requests from film producers for shooting outside and in Delhi Police headquarters, Gaffar Market, one of the most congested as well as the biggest mobile repairing markets, and other locations like Kalu Sarai and Mukherjee Nagar area, hubs of coaching centres and areas with PGs and restaurants, said a tourist department official...
Moreover, officials said that the film policy rolled out last May by the Delhi government is also receiving good responses, and the department has received 64 requests for filming under this policy..
The Delhi film policy 2022 was one of the budget promises of the government wherein the key aim was to bring in transparency, ease of doing business and make Delhi a global brand and destination for film shooting to promote tourism, art and culture through films and increase the revenue and employment opportunities...
