chandigarh sensing the future of entertainment specially in punjabi medium the punjab government has decided to give support to pollywood by setting up film city and film institute in the vicinity of mohali district in a meeting held on wednesday deputy chief minister sukhbir badal said that punjabi films and other language films shot in punjab have a great future and the state government should provide strategic support to film industry in this task badal said that he was getting lot of requests from film producers and directors to shoot their proposed movies in the scenic areas of punjab villages historical forts golden temple and to capture the rare beauty of narrow lanes of historical towns of amritsar patiala kapurthala and bathinda etc he said that film producers on their own initiative were trying to capture the different angles of punjab but there was no fullfledged system in the state to provide them strategic support in facilitating their shootings the principal secretary tourism and cultural affairs geetika kalha has been asked to coordinate with leading producers of film industry to know their requirements and come out with a complete conceptual plan for film city the chief administrator puda manvesh singh sidhu has been asked to scout a suitable piece of land especially in the scenic foothills of shivalik for the proposed film city and provide total connectivity to that site a core group would be formed to study the world class facilities available with the film cities of hyderabad chennai and mumbai and upgrade those facilities in the proposed film city to meet the requirements of hollywood industry the government is aiming that the film city in mohali should provide world class animation film mixing cinematography sound engineering editing and lighting facilities so that no producer after shooting the movie had to rush to mumbai to give finishing touches to their movies the core group would also study the financial model of the industry requirements for the punjabi film industry incentive package for the films being shot in punjab besides a special package for those films that would provide encouragement and employment to punjabi youth the government also gave nod to the world class film institute in mohali that would provide specialisation in 48 trades related with film industry the institute to be set up in the ppp mode would have threeyear graduation level courses in direction cinematography editing sound engineering animation and visual effects screen writing make up acting production design and art direction it has also been proposed to have diploma level program at under graduate level in lighting design multi camera studio operations commercial photography production design visual effects etc in the second phase it has been proposed to have advance diploma courses and post graduate courses in mass communication journalism advertising in public relations development communication media management etc the institute to be setup at the cost of rs 115 crore would have proposed student strength of 2850 and it would be setup at a piece