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Alupa Floating Filmcity

I was thinking about what are the facilities we should have in 'Kaup Seafront Filmcity' so to make it unique in the country.

1. Facilities for adventure water sports like scuba diving, snorkeling, wakeboarding, kite surfing etc, also sky diving could be done using seaplanes.
2. Oceanarium
3. Startup Theme Park (Marine & Photography/Filmography themes)
4. Warship Museum
5. Underwater Museum {1,2} - Pauranik or Historic theme
6. Marina with docking facilities for Catamarans, Houseboats, Kayaks, passenger boats etc
7. Amphibious vehicles {1,2,3,4,5,6,7}
8. As in other film cities of India {1,2,3}
9. As in other waterfront theme parks of the world (waterslide through oceanarium, inflatable water park etc) {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
10. Artificial Kayaking Arena (through oceanarium?)
11. 'Film Studio' with 'Animation Studio'
12. A school of 'Computational Creativity' and 'Cultural Analytics', film studies along with other film schools.
13. 'Kambla Track' & other Tulundau heritage displays
14. Residential township for film personalities

Startup/Hobby Theme Park within filmcity may lead to innovations in movies also. For example, innovative gadgets like kittyhawk can be used in films. Just imagine hero or heroine, who happens to be a hobbyist, flying on kittyhawk firing at terrorists' or smugglers' boat or ship.

Only thing is Kaup MLA should take interest to materialize the dream of people of his constituency for having a filmcity at Kaup and airport at Padubidri. By the way, why there is no news on progress made so far for construction of airport? Whether feasibility study is done or whether DPR itself is getting ready?

Apart from Kaup Marine Hobby/Startup Theme Park other Hobby/Startup Theme Parks are

1) Bagundi - Clean Energy/Technology & Petrochemicals
2) Deralakatte or Pilikula - Medical/Healthcare
3) Manpalla - Medical/Healthcare
4) Puttur - Agriculture & Food Processing

And then Kundapur, Karkala, Uppinangadi & BC Road will also have hobby theme parks or clubs.

So far no statement on this by Kaup MLA or Udupi MP. Neither on Padubidri Airport work commencement. I don't know what is the achievement of Udupi-Chickmagalur MP so far. I don't even think for bringing 'Gems & Jwellery Institute' to Udupi she had made any contribution and we all know about who is behind 'Startup Coast'.

Since the central government plan is to develop Kaup as health city (hopefully including health knowledge city) I have changed the title of the filmcity as 'Alupa Floating Filmcity'. This filmcity can be floating in sea near Kaup or anywhere in the coastal districts. Since Indian government has proposed plan to build floating cities developing a floating filmcity will not be a problem. Like the historical Alupa Kingdom this filmcity will also shine for more than thousand of years producing Tulu, Konkani, Beary, Hindi and also Kannada and other language movies. I think we can have more than 5000 acres floating filmcity in the sea. But the mall planned by an NRI can be within Udupi city itself including all kinds of film schools and film study institutes.

This report here is only a temporary setback to the coast as the CM favouring this city for filmcity is going to lose power in another two months and since the party coming to power will favour the coast. This is because the party coming to power will not win any seat in that region and it will win maximum number of seats in the coastal districts. There is also no threat of bollywood copying any idea from here. The filmcity definitely is coming to Karavali. Don't worry Karavalites!

Will Film City project be launched before elections? - In the past also foundation stones were laid for so many things before election and then abandoned. In this case also the next government will decide the location of the film city. Tuluvas don't worry coastalwood will have its own film city soon.