Indian-origin UAE businessman B R Shetty said he planned to open a “film city” in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state – where numerous Bollywood films such as Mission Kashmir, Raazi, Haider, Uri: The Surgical Strike, and Henna have previously been shot. BR Shetty has announced to build a film city spread across 12 square kilometres in Jammu and Kashmir. He had pledged $1 billion to J&K and $5 million towards New India Development Fund during PM Narendra Modi's visit to the UAE last month. Shetty said: “It’s a very scenic place, and I’m going to have a film city there, so that people can come and shoot films there, and for tourism.

Indian-origin UAE businessman B R Shetty said he planned to open a “film city” in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state – where numerous Bollywood films such as Mission Kashmir, Raazi, Haider, Uri: The Surgical Strike, and Henna have previously been shot. BR Shetty has announced to build a film city spread across 12 square kilometres in Jammu and Kashmir. He had pledged $1 billion to J&K and $5 million towards New India Development Fund during PM Narendra Modi's visit to the UAE last month. Shetty said: “It’s a very scenic place, and I’m going to have a film city there, so that people can come and shoot films there, and for tourism.