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TURKEY SEEKING TO ATTRACT SHARE OF BOLLYWOOD MOVIE PRODUCTION
ANKARA - Turkey aims to become one of the movie sets for Bollywood, Indian film industry, which produces nearly 1,400 movies a year.
14.04.2010 - Update : 14.04.2010
A group of officials from Turkey's culture ministry are currently in talks with Bollywood producers to convince them to make their films in Turkey.
"Indian film industry makes three films a day. Around 300 films are made outside India in a year. Our goal is to have a 10 percent of these 300 films in Turkey. Because cost of a movie is nearly 5 million USD," Abdurrahman Celik, a senior official of the ministry, said.
India has a population of 1.2 billion and 4 billion movie tickets are sold annually in India, Celik said, adding that Bollywood outpaced American movie industry Hollywood in number.
A Bollywood film, "Tell Me Oh Khudaa", was shot in Turkey two years ago starring Turkish actors and actresses. Another Indian production crew is expected to come to Turkey in May to start shootings of a new film.
Celik said, however, Turkey must make some arrangements, especially tax cuts on movie production, to attract foreign filmmakers.
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, former Bombay, India. Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centers of film production in the world. The name is a combination of Bombay and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry. Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Please contact us for subscription options.
"Indian film industry makes three films a day. Around 300 films are made outside India in a year. Our goal is to have a 10 percent of these 300 films in Turkey. Because cost of a movie is nearly 5 million USD," Abdurrahman Celik, a senior official of the ministry, said.
India has a population of 1.2 billion and 4 billion movie tickets are sold annually in India, Celik said, adding that Bollywood outpaced American movie industry Hollywood in number.
A Bollywood film, "Tell Me Oh Khudaa", was shot in Turkey two years ago starring Turkish actors and actresses. Another Indian production crew is expected to come to Turkey in May to start shootings of a new film.
Celik said, however, Turkey must make some arrangements, especially tax cuts on movie production, to attract foreign filmmakers.
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, former Bombay, India. Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centers of film production in the world. The name is a combination of Bombay and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry. Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Please contact us for subscription options.
