Updated: September 22, 2020 8:30:53 pm
Udit Narayan sang a special song for UP CM Yogi Adityanath. (Source: @ Saurabhsherry / Twitter)
Bollywood singer Udit Narayan dedicated a song to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a meeting with members of the film fraternity in Lucknow to discuss the Film City proposal to be made in the state.
Narayan dedicated a version of Lagaan’s “Mitwa” to the UP CM during the meeting as others watched.
Singer @RealUditNarayan sing a song in praise of @myogiadityanath during the meeting of creation of a city of cinema chaired today by the CM of the UP in Lucknow.
Video source: an officer who was present at the meeting pic.twitter.com/uhX4vUi4Le– Saurabh Sharma (@Saurabhsherry) September 22, 2020
The meeting was also attended by Vijayendra Prasad, Raju Shrivastava, Ashoke Pandit, Kailash Kher, Manoj Joshi, Nitin Desai, Vinod Bachchan, Pragya Kumar and Anup Jalota. Ravi Kishan, Soundarya Rajinikanth, Anupam Kher, Atul Agnihotri, Paresh Rawal, Manoj Muntasir and Satish Kaushik virtually attended the meeting.
At the meeting, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath revealed an ambitious plan to establish a film city in Uttar Pradesh and made an open offer to film the fraternity to come to the state.
He also announced that the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) has identified 1,000 acres of land in Gautam Budh Nagar, where the Dedicated Infotainment Zone will be established with all world-class civil, public and technological facilities, a statement from the chief . declared the minister’s office.
“The prime minister said that the proposed site is only one hour from New Delhi and very close to the proposed international airport in Jewar, which will be the totally new largest airport in Asia,” he said.
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भारतीय सिनेमा को एक नया मंच मिले, यह समय की आवश्यकता है। इसमें प्रदेश सरकार पूरा सहयोग करेगी। हमारे मन में भारतीयता होनी चाहिए, हमें कहीं भी इसको अपने से इतर नहीं रखना। इस भाव के साथ हम कार्य करेंगे तो उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार इसमें भरपूर सहयोग करेगी: CM श्री @myogiadityanath जी
– CM Office, GoUP (@CMOfficeUP) September 22, 2020
The statement said that it is also close to “Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, Mathura, the birthplace of Lord Krishna, and close to the proposed logistics center in Noida, the proposed dry port and the freight corridor, thus providing all the transportation and movement facilities “. . “
Raju Shrivastava, who was present at the meeting, told indianexpress.com: “We thank Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for listening to us and fulfilling our request. We have all been working for more than fifteen years to start a movie town in North India. We had previously shown land in Lucknow to Boney Kapoor and Shubhash Ghai. We also took them to different cities, but they found the land very expensive.
“So the honorable Chief Minister said that there is land available in sector 30 of Noida, and he said that they will give us a subsidy and that the land will be given to us at a discounted rate. You have taken this initiative because it is a question of employment. The city of cinema will employ thousands of people in this region. We also had to find a place where there are airports and hotels, so this place is apt. We also chose Noida as the location because we will get Vrindavan, Mathura and Agra as locations for the shots. “
He added: “The CM wrote down all the suggestions and problems and has told us that this will be a world class city and film studio.
(With PTI inputs)
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