A NEW FILM POLICY FOR J&K

An effort to make it a film shooting destination
Picturesque Jammu and Kashmir will be back as favorite film shooting destinations with the Union Territory Government looking for a new film policy. The region with Himalayas as background was the background of many movies both old and new.
Actor Aamir Khan, Mahaveer Jain and filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani met the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, this month to launch this new film policy which promotes the union territory as a film-friendly destination. Earlier, filmmakers like Ekta Kapoor, Imtiaz Ali, Nitesh Tiwari and Dinesh Vijan had also met Sinha in order to discuss how best to promote Jammu and Kashmir as a popular filming destination. In fact, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan had met Sinha too to converse on the same along with his former partner and producer Kiran Rao.
Manoj Sinha tweeted, “Met renowned film actors Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao today. We discussed the new film policy of J&K, which will be released shortly. The discussion also focused on reviving J&K glory in Bollywood and making it a favourite film shooting destination.”
Interestingly, Aamir has been shooting a schedule of his upcoming Hindi movie Laal Singh Chaddha in Srinagar for the past few days. He had earlier shot a significant portion of the movie in Ladakh with his team. “People here are so good at heart. We had a great experience working here.
In Kargil also the infrastructure is quite advanced, and we had no issue accommodating our huge crew here, Amir said. It used to take me one hour to reach the shoot location. I, along with Naga Chaitanya Akkineni, enjoyed the scenery during our drive,” Aamir had told a reporter at Ladakh.