From serious movies like Madras Cafe to comedy films to family soap opera to crime series — all are being shot at different locations of Himachal Pradesh which indicates that the State is becoming the hot favourite among film producers.
Himachal Pradesh Director (Tourism) Subhasish Panda said that more than two dozen films had been shot in the State since January 2013, including feature films, serials, advertisement films and albums. He said that the film production companies from southern States were regularly visiting the State to shoot their films.
Panda added that efforts were being made to attract and facilitate the film production houses for shooting. "All permissions for shooting the films in the State were being granted within 24 hours and director of tourism department had been made the nodal officer by the State Government to grant permission," he said.
Since January 2013, permission was granted to regional language film 'Madras café, Malyalam film Starring Pournami, Malyalam documentary Buddy, Tamil movie Unmai, Hindi feature film 'Mothers' Day', 'Purani Jeans', Highway, love is not Mathematics, Ek Tera Saath, Film Pappu Ki Pagdandi and Film Vanity Fair.
TV serial producers were also showing their interest to shoot their serials at various locations in the State. TV serial Savdhan India and Khamosh had been shot at the locations in Shimla, Solan, Kangra, Mandi, Kullu, Chamba, Hamirpur, Una and Bilaspur districts and popular comedy show Chintu Ban Gaya Gentleman was also shot in the State. Officials said in addition a number of commercial advertisement films and video/music albums are also regularly shot in various locations of the State by the film production houses.