Mithun's Dream Factory
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Mithun's Dream Factory is an Indian film studio based in Ootacamund.
Mithun Chakraborty left the Mumbai based film Industry in the early 1990s as he shifted his base at Ooty to concentrate on his hotel Business. He set up an Hotel in Ooty [1] and chose to act only in films which were shot at Ooty and nearby locales. This strategy paid off as the film crew could stay in his hotel The Monarch [2] for discounted rates and complete the film in a single schedule. Mithun's limited budget movies soon started flowing, as every month saw a Mithun release, which was profitable too, but these films were often ignored by critics and were categorized as B movies (low-budget) Film. He paid more tax than anyone else in the Bollywood film industry in the country , in the mean period for 5 continuous years, from 1995 to 1999.[3][4] Interestingly Chakraborty also holds the record of appearing in maximum number of Hindi films as Hero (over 250 films).
List of Movies (selected)
- 2001
- Bhairav
- Bengal Tiger
- Meri Pyaari Bahania Banegi Dulhania
- Arjun Devaa
- Meri Adalat
- Khatron Ke Khiladi
- Baghaawat – Ek Jung
- 2006
- Insaaf Ki Jung
- Hungama
- 2008
- Aaj Ka Boss
- 2009
- Dushmani
Snippets
India Today Magazine carried an Article on Mithun as " The B movies (low-budget) King " [5][6] and SCREEN Weekly carried a cover story as " Mithun - The Miracle Man ", both covering the Ooty based Film production phenomenon.[7] Outlook Magazine too mentioned about the same.[8]Filmfare Magazine dated May 1998 published the same phenomenon under the title Believe it or not... The unusually - safe suthri story of Mithun Chakraborty. Rediff addressed Mithun as " That indefatigable Movie Machine ".[9] Director T L V Prasad called the shot for more than 25 Mithun films[10] in the mean period.
References
- http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020315/fcover1.html
- http://www.india-today.com/itoday/09031998/cinema.html
- http://wearethemovies.com/forum/index.php?topic=293.0;wap2
- ↑ "Welcome to The Monarch Group of Hotels". mithunhotels. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ↑ "The Big Buck Opera’s Three-penny Star". Outlookindia. 2000-02-14. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
- ↑ "Bollywood's highest tax payer @ Rs 13 cr". indianexpress. 2 Nov 2005. Retrieved 28 Sep 2014.
- ↑ "Man, Monarch,Messiah". www.screenindia.com. Retrieved 18 Nov 2010.
- ↑ "The B-Grade King". India Today. 1998-03-09. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ↑ "The B-Grade King - Anupama Chopra" (PDF). anupamachopra. 1996-03-01. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
- ↑ "...And the Mithun Chakraborty dream factory rolls on..". Screen. March 27, 1998.
- ↑ "Acidwash Adonis". Outlookindia. 1998-05-19. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
- ↑ "That indefatigable movie machine". Rediff On The NeT. 1999-03-16. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
- ↑ "Limca Record". http://www.tlvprasad.net. Retrieved 2010-10-30. External link in
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