Colaba mill may open for film shoots again

The location the place Amitabh Bachchan shook a leg to Jumma Chumma De De used to be shut final month after BMC discovered it dilapidated; owners want ‘secure’ parts to be opened.

Colaba’s Muktesh Mill, a well-liked movie shoot location that have been shut final month, might soon open for business.

Last month, the BMC had shut down the premises after stating the constructions dilapidated and unsafe for taking pictures. The A ward place of work issued a note, asking the owners to conduct a contemporary audit of all constructions at the 10-acre mill land and to stay shut till then.

Formally owned by means of East African Hardware Ltd’s Muljibhai Madhvani, the plot used to be later taken over by means of TCI Industries Ltd.

In a letter dated April 30, the owners told the BMC that they had performed a structural audit and found that simplest probably the most constructions inside of have been dilapidated. Pointing out that the unsafe constructions have been situated near the beach and now not as regards to the open floor, they asked that the rest parts be opened for shoots.

Hinting that it’s willing to meet halfway, the civic frame directed the mill owners to demolish the harmful constructions prior to being granted permission for movie shoots. “We have received a document from the owners. The structural audit has been performed by means of Mahimtura Consultants Pvt Ltd. They have claimed that just a handful of constructions are dilapidated, whilst lots of the mill constructions are in just right condition. But we have requested them to first demolish the harmful constructions prior to permitting any movie taking pictures,” said Kiran Dighavkar, assistant municipal commissioner of A Ward. “We can’t take any risk. For us, the entire mill is one construction. So we will be able to simplest allow any more or less taking pictures once the harmful constructions are demolished.”

Officials said that the mill, situated on a sea-facing plot at Colaba’s NA Sawant Marg, used to be originally arrange prior to Independence. “At that time, this used to be most probably the one mill in south Mumbai. The mill itself had a big personal dock. There, bales of cotton and cargo yards of completed cloth have been unloaded. They have been then transferred to huge vessels and exported,” an official said.

BMC officers said that the mill was defunct in the 1980s and soon was Bollywood’s favorite spot to shoot climaxes, action sequences and songs. It has been featured in as regards to 50 Bollywood movies for the reason that 1980s. The in style track Jumma Chumma De De from Hum (1991), that includes actor Amitabh Bachchan, used to be shot there, as have been parts of movies like Lukka Chuppi, Heropanti, Raaz, Jee Karda and Badlapur lately. Many ads, too, have been shot there.

The mill used to be arrange prior to Independence and thrived as cotton business picked up