Bengaluru: The State Government will set up a mega Film City on 150-acre land at Hessarghatta on the outskirts of Bengaluru and the process will be expedited, said Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan. With the announcement, the Government has gone back to the original location that the late CM Ramakrishna Hegde had suggested.
In the 1980s, Hegde Government had first announced Film City. This announcement was repeated in 2004 when S.M. Krishna was CM. In 2017, during the reign of Siddharamaiah, the Film City was sanctioned to Himmavu in Varuna Constituency and when H.D. Kumaraswamy (JD-S-Congress) was the CM, the Film City was proposed to be built at Ramanagara. After Yediyurappa took over as CM, he had proposed to build the Film City inside the Roerich and Devika Rani Estate at Tataguni in Bengaluru.
