Govt plans to mandate 45 Marathi movies per screen every year

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Speaking in the State Legislative Council, Tawde said, “There are some multiplexes with just two or three screens, but there are some others that have as many as eight or nine. Having a rule of 125 Marathi movies for every multiplex for smaller multiplexes was fine, but for larger multiplexes, it didn’t amount to much. So we have decided to clear the disparity.”

Tawde said the government is also taking steps, including the possibility of establishing a Maharashtra School of Drama and a film and television university at Goregaon’s Film City, to improve the infrastructure for theatre and cinema in the state.

“Today, the film and television industry is rapidly growing and is worth over a lakh crore, but there is no formal training university available other than Pune’s Film and Television Institute of India,” Tawde said.

Besides, for the conservation of state’s crumbling forts, the government has decided to develop 14 forts as models, and draw up a master plan for all state-protected monuments, bringing them to the standards of securing a UNESCO heritage tag, Tawde said.

The 14 forts that will be developed as model forts include Bhudargad, Torana, Ambagad and Dharur. The government is also planning a festival this month at the Sidhudurg Fort on the lines of the Raigad festival it had held earlier this year to showcase the rich history of the monument by staging Chhatrapati Shivaji’s coronation, and marketing the destination to tourists.