Mumbai: The Film and Television Producers Guild of India has urged Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to “support” Subhash Ghai’s Whistling Woods International in the wake of the Bombay High Court’s directive to the filmmaker to hand over the land alloted to the institute in Filmcity.
The Guild, an autonomous non-profit film trade body comprising industry stakeholders, said the film institute was needed to create the world-class pool of talent and to improve quality of professionals. Last month, the high court held the joint venture agreement dated May 30, 2000, signed between Ghai’s Mukta Arts and Maharashtra Film, Stage and Cultural Development Corporation (MFSCDC) as “illegal, arbitrary and without authority of law”. (PTI)