Austrian Alps Ready For Bollywood Tourism!

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The delegates were in Bombay on 19th February to interact with Bollywood and lure filmmakers to shoot their films in Austria. At a luncheon meeting at a suburban hotel, it was revealed that a new film financing model for films shot in Austria had been announ­ced recently in the country.

This policy has earmarked 20 million Euros for foreign films shot in the country till 2012-end. Of the 20 million Euros, 5 million will be used in the current year and 7.5 million in each of 2011 and 2012.

Umesh Mehra ('International Khiladai', 'Qila' etc. ) announced at the meeting that his banner was in the process of signing the first Indo-Austrian film co-production venture shortly for which he (Mehra) would be soon flying to Austria.

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