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Look at Shankar’s Sivaji! The film is partly
shot in Andhra and partly in Chennai. It’s
not Shankar alone who shoots his films in the
Telugu country. Many are the producers who shuttle
between Hyderabad and Chennai making a film. The
question is why do the producers choose Hyderabad
to shoot their films. Are there no good locales
in Tamil Nadu? Well, the answer is: it is easier
to get permission to shoot in Hyderabad than in
Chennai. You can get permit for shoot overnight
there. But here, in Tamil Nadu, producers are
tired of the formalities. They say sometimes it
takes a month to get permission. The red-tapism
bogs the industry down here. If something is not
done immediately, who knows, the entire Tamil
movies may be shot in the Telugu regions. The
revenue that goes to the Andhra government from
Kodambakkam is almost eighty crores per year.
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