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Recently, honourable
minister for Information & Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj inaugurated
the new state-of-the-art Moving Picture Company Studio facility
and office complex at the Film City in Noida. Speaking on the occasion,
Sushma Swaraj praised the efforts made by Moving Picture in taking
the lead in making India a content hub of the world. Also present
at the ceremony were the minister of state for Information and Broadcasting
Ramesh Bains and Amar Singh of the Samajwadi party.
A decade and
a half of committed work and over 2000 hours of telecast programming
is now manifest in the hi-tech digital studio. Spread over 26,000
square feet, with multiple shooting floors, linear and non-linear
edit systems, multiple cameras, the facility is manned by some of
the best professionals in the business. It is geared to produce
television software of international standards for India and abroad.
The complex is designed by the eminent architect, Mohit Gujral.
A full-fledged 3D animation division with cutting edge technology
has been commissioned simultaneously. This modern facility will
provide back end support to international animation majors, as well
as produce Indian animation films of international quality. It will
assist in feature film animatics as well as provide graphics, animation
and composing support to ad films.
Moving Picture
Company was started by the national and international award winning
filmmaker Ramesh Sharma during the later half of the eighties. It
took off as a boutique production house when Uma Gajapathi Raju,
his wife, joined the company as one of its directors in 1989. In
the nineties MPC emerged as a leading production house of the country
by consistently forging new genres as well maintaining excellent
production values. A number of creatives as well as technicians
of repute began to gather under the banner. To promote a healthy
image of India abroad during the first phase of liberalisation India
This Week was started in 1993. For five years, the weekly show was
telecast over thirty ethnic cable stations all over the world as
well as on DD Metro and in flight Air India. The programme is still
being shown on DD Metro and is arguably the longest running weekly
current affairs programme in India. Programmes like The India Travel
Show, The Great Indian Yatra etc were the first travel shows that
came about.
Since then
the company has gone from strength to strength with productions
for Doordarshan and the emergent satellite channels. The two thousand
plus hours of telecast programming of Moving Picture Company has
been over Star, Zee, TVI, Sony Max, National Geographic channels.
It surely speaks about the dedication and devotion of the company
to give the best.
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