A new Bollywood movie has filmed on location in Oman with star Harman Baweja. Dhishkiyaon spent ten days shooting near Muscat in the north of the sultanate, which lies on the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
Film tourism from the UK to Mumbai is growing, due partly to an increase in the number of Bollywood productions filming in Britain. Virgin Atlantic launched a new daily flight from London to Mumbai in late October 2012 and credits Bollywood for driving demand.
India and Spain have signed a location filming agreement designed to boost production in each respective country. Neither nation offers a formal filming incentive programme but the deal is intended to improve how they share their filmmaking and artistic resources.
[slideshow id=316]Mumbai-based RU Films has brought Bollywood-flavoured action to Budapest in a spot for Indian vehicle manufacturer Hero Motocorp. The ad shows Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor stoically recalling his adventures as he’s held captive by gangsters on a city bridge.
A new film tourism campaign from VisitBritain is using the James Bond thriller Skyfall as a hook. It’s an obvious opportunity given that 2012 marks the Bond franchise’s 50th anniversary and much of Skyfall was filmed in London and Scotland.
Craig Woods is Film Commissioner at the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. The Bahamas is part of the British Commonwealth and encompasses 700 Caribbean islands, of which 30 are inhabited. Craig is in charge of promoting and arranging film shoots in the region.
Slovenia in central Europe is being used as a Bollywood filming location for the first time. Filmmaker VV Vinayak has brought his Telugu-language feature film Nayak to three of the country’s most eye-catching locales.
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir in the northern tip of India has set up a new committee to promote the region as a filming location. Boosting film tourism will also be a prerogative of the new Film Tourism Promotion Committee.