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Entertainment section of Innovative Studios to open soon

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BANGALORE: The entertainment wing of the Innovative Studios Private Limited, situated at the Bidadi Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), on the Bangalore-Mysore Road near here, will be thrown open to the public from April 14, according to its Chief Executive Officer Upasana Mittal.

She told presspersons here on Tuesday that the wing would include a “Believe it or Not” museum created by Ripley’s, a museum of Louis Tussauds Waxworks, a museum of fossils, a storehouse of horrors, a dinosaur park, a cartoon city, a wave pool with bar and restaurant facilities, go-carting, fun games, a mini golf course, a huge centre of automotive games, a hall for screening four-dimension cinemas and a food court. The wing is aimed at educating and entertaining all, she added.

The outlay of the wing, including the technical and other infrastructural support by US-based companies, is estimated at Rs. 200 crore. A shopping centre on the model of European shopping avenues would become another attraction of the venue by September, she said. A shopping avenue in the European fashion is to provide an experience of that ambience for those who can not afford to visit Europe, Ms. Upasana said.

The company was also planning to introduce common and special entry packages. It has entered into an agreement with a number of hotels and transport houses for promoting its project. Entertainment wing, shopping avenues and creation of film-making infrastructure were the company’s priorities, she said.

Asked about its announced plans about the film city, she said that two Kannada producers had already shot some sequences of their films. It would facilitate film-making infrastructure in the course of time.The entertainment wing will be open between 10 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. on all days. The entry fee is Rs. 50 for the wing. The entry fee for other segments such as museums, wave pool and hall of automotive games will be different. There would be no entry fee for those who are under 3.5 ft. height, irrespective of age, she said.

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