Guardian Media & Entertainment, a leading company that creates innovative attractions and theme parks, has been appointed by the VELS Group of Chennai to help design and bring to fruition a new film-based theme park in Bangalore, India.
The city will become home to a range of freshly-designed rides and attractions based on popular movie themes. Some of the proposed projects include a blockbuster-themed façade projection mapping show synchronised with fountains and lasers, a dinosaur ride, a Titanic experience, and a visitor participation show that explores the film production process.
Guardian Media & Entertainment will help to develop the full-scale amusement park with a further water park already confirmed for the development. Further shows and exhibits will make their debut in a scheduled second phase.
“Many attractions created in this park will be of the first of its kind created anywhere in Asia, and will be the biggest in India. It is a great project for GME as all the creations will get fantastic visibility as the park is based in a buzzing city like Bangalore,” says a representative for Guardian Media Entertainment.
The Indian company focuses on the creation of immersive experiences, attractions, shows, parks and museums. Guardian Media Entertainment has over a decade’s experience in designing, theming, VFX and media creation, on-site integration and technology manufacturing.
A famous face behind the dream
VELS Studios and Entertainment Pvt Ltd CEO Arav is a well-known name in the world of filmmaking. Known mostly as a model and mainstream Tamil cinema actor, he was also Season One winner of the reality tv show Bigg Boss, an Indian edition of the international Big Brother franchise.
“VELS is a group of educational institutions across India, Singapore and the UK. Adding a feather to the hat, we wanted to explore the family entertainment industry.
“Films have always been an integral part of the Indian people, and that is how the idea of creating a film-themed park popped up. We started working on this project during the pandemic, and I was scouting for a team who can associate with us in developing this dream.
“From our first call, I found Guardian Media & Entertainment to be so determined and enthusiastic in shaping up this project at a global scale. It has been more than a year of travel together, and we are getting closer to creating one of the finest film parks in India.”
Guardian Media & Entertainment’s Sanjay Dabke adds: “We are really delighted and grateful to VELS Studios for bestowing a huge amount of trust for these creations.
“We are helping them in every way to come up with extremely unique content in a very tight schedule of time.”
The new theme park is scheduled to officially open in October this year.
Another recent project by the firm recently opened in India, with the Military Might Museum in Maharashtra, utilising animatronics and genuine wartime artefacts to create a one-of-a-kind experience.
Concepts: Guardian Media & Entertainment
