Day 4-(27/12/2006)
Day 4 we planned to visit Ramoji Film City, supposed to be one of the biggest film cities in the world. Ramoji Film City is located 25 km from Hyderabad and 40 km from our house. We started our journey around 9.30am. My cousin’s family also came along with us. We travelled along the NH9 and by 11.30am we reached the entrance of film city. We had to park the cars here and moved to the ticket counters. The tickets were priced at 250/- per head for adults. After purchasing tickets, we moved to the place where busses which would take us to the film city which was located quite far from the main entrance. The busses dropped at the entrance of film city and we straight away moved to a theatre where we were shown how a movie was made with all the sound and picture effects. Next we roamed around the well maintained park and also saw the Wild Wild West zone which was maintained exactly like the movie. It was 1.30pm and we decided to have lunch. We had our lunch from Ganga-Jamuna Resturant.
After lunch we moved to the bus station where a vintage bus would take us round the film city. There was pretty long queue and after a wait of 15 min we finally boarded the bus. Each bus had a guide who would explain about the film city. The bus took us through the film city and there were replicas of Mughal Garden, Taj Mahal, Hawa Mahal, Bhrindavan Garden, Sieara Garden, Airport, Railway Station, Police station, Central Jail, High court, Rural Hosuing, Urban Housing, Shopping malls, temples, churches, mosques, highways, dhaba and all those we see in movies. The guide also explained to us how the movie were shot and also listed few major Hindi films which were shot here.
The film city also houses the head quarters of Ramoji Films and also the private television channels owned by Ramoji network. The Guiness book of World Records has listed this film city as the biggest Film city complex in the world. Indeed it was very huge, located in 2000 acres. The bus dropped us near the Hawa Mahal and after that we roamed around a few places inside the park. Then we moved to the place called Eureka, where there were lots of entertainment for kids like any other theme park. Next we went for the Wild Wild West show and it was a wonderfull show. There were other shows like Punjabi and North East Dance. Around 5.45 pm we boarded the bus back to the main entrance. The Ramoji Film city is a great effort by Ramoji films and is worth a visit.
We reached back home around 10.00pm after little shopping in the city. It was a wonderful outing although it was a bit tiring too…
