– MP Toursim Board AMD Shilpa Gupta pitched for investing in Film Toursim in Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF ) Awards held in Mumbai.

– Madhya Pradesh Tourism is tourism partner of the event.

DELHI, 23 FEBRUARY, 2022 (GPN): The Prestigious DadaSaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF ) Awards in association with Madhya Pradesh Tourism was held on 20th February in Mumbai. Additional Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board Smt. Shilpa Gupta also graced the event.

She awarded Kiara Advani as Critics Best Actress for her role in film ‘Shershaah’ and Aayush Sharma as Best Actor in a Negative Role for his role in film ‘Antim: The Final Truth’. After the event AMD Smt. Shilpa Gupta briefed the press and guests about different initiatives taken by MP government to attract Film Tourism.

She said, “Government of Madhya Pradesh has introduced MP Film Tourism Policy – 2020 and we are getting a good response from Film Fraternity both nationally and internationally. Film Tourism Policy have make the state into a film-friendly state. She pitched for investing in film tourism and said, Madhya Pradesh is an ideal destination for rich, diverse, and unseen locations ranging from heritage, religious sites, malls, markets, rural charm, forests, water bodies, you name it, Madhya Pradesh has everything to offer. Therefore, we have seen an excellent positive response in past two years from all filmmakers from the Hindi Film Industry, TV industry, OTT players, South India Regional filmmakers, and of course the filmmakers from Overseas. We have kept the provision for providing financial incentives to all kinds of film projects under our film policy including Film, Web Film, Web Series, TV serials, and even documentaries. We have landbanks available for setting up film city, studio, and post-production facilities with lucrative capital grants schemes to encourage investors for investing in Madhya Pradesh.”

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About Madhya Pradesh Tourism: 

Madhya Pradesh offers an assortment of attractions to everyone who loves to travel. It is the state with the forest area cover of approx. 77,700 sq.kms (Approx ¼ of the total land area) filled with Sal Trees & Bamboos. It has numerous wildlife hotspots with 11 National parks & 24 Wildlife sanctuaries such as Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary and Chambal Ghadiyal Sanctuary. The UNESCO World Heritage sites at Khajuraho, Bhimbetka & Sanchi are the iconic sites in the state. Madhya Pradesh has re-gained the tag of being “The Tiger State of the Country” by having maximum Tiger count (526) in the state. The roar of Tigers has increased in the dense and beautiful forests of Madhya Pradesh. 

Madhya Pradesh is not only home to two Jyotirlingas Mahakaleshwar and Omkareshwar. Burhanpur, Bhopal, Gwalior and Mandu are some of the beautiful architectural sites, whereas lndrasagar, Gandhi sagar, Tawa and Bargi are the spellbinding water bodies. Cultural events like Khajuraho Dance Festival, Mandu Festival, Orchha Cultural Festival, Tansen Festival are some of the annual tourism promotional festivals to attract tourists from all walks of life.

Since more than four decades Madhya Pradesh Tourism is facilitating high standard travel services for travellers visiting Central India for Tourism. Madhya Pradesh is an important state of Central India with an enormous scope for tourism, covering all types of tourism like heritage tourism, wildlife tourism, cultural tourism, pilgrimage, tribal tourism, rural tourism etc. Their sincere efforts to manifest such aspect of Central India tourism to rest of the world so that tourists can come and explore Central India tourist places, trace their history, enjoy their holidays and return with beautiful memories is the USP.