Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 17: Actress Radhika Kumaraswamy is shooting for the Kannada Film “Sweety” in world famous Tulip Garden here. This is the first film to be shot in this year’s Tulip season. Radhika had made a comeback to the acting after six years by setting up her home production Shamika.
The crew is here for seven days shoot in the Valley. Yesterday, film unit couldn’t shoot in Gulmarg because of bad weather.
“Our film is ready, we were only waiting for the Tulip flowers for the love song,” Movie Director Vijayalakshmi Singh said.
Sweety, which is a commercial entertainer that has an urban story, is directed by Vijayalakshmi Singh and also features Aditya, Ramya Krishna, Girish Karnad, Jai Jagadish, Sadhu Kokila and others in the cast.
“The people of the valley are very nice and I loved the day in Tulip Garden,” said Actress Radhika
Kashmir valley was a prime destination for Bollywood filmmakers upto 1980s. However, the region with its stunning mountain peaks, green meadows and gushing water was shunned by the film industry after the insurgency picked its pace in 1990s.
With improvement in security situation and a decline in militancy, Bollywood is gradually returning to Kashmir. There has been a marginal increase in the number of films shot over the past four years.Recent films shot in Kashmir include Ayan Mukherji’s Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani starting Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone.
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