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Tuta · Nava Raipur · 24 January 2026

Chitrotpala Film City

चित्रोत्पला फिल्म सिटी और जनजातीय सांस्कृतिक सम्मेलन केन्द्र

A film city and a tribal and cultural convention centre at Tuta village. Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai laid the foundation on 24 January 2026. Culture and Tourism Minister Rajesh Agrawal was there, and he spoke. The project is the Chief Minister’s foundation, not a scheme the minister announced on his own.

The ceremonial avenue of Nava Raipur at dusk
Nava Raipur Atal Nagar. The film city is being built at Tuta village in this capital area. This avenue is not the plot.
Foundation
24 January 2026
Who laid it
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai
Place
Tuta, Mana, Nava Raipur
First phase
About 95 acres
Both projects
About 100 acres
Film city sanction
₹95.79 crore
Convention centre
₹52.03 crore
State, phase one
₹150 crore
Later phases
₹250–300 crore
Private capital expected
About ₹300 crore
Model
Public–private
Target
About two years

Acres and the ₹150 crore / ₹250–300 crore split: the Chief Minister, as reported by ANI, The Times of India and The Hitavada. About 100 acres for both projects, and ₹95.79 crore plus ₹52.03 crore: a state official, quoted by PTI on 24 January 2026. The November 2024 sanction note had put the convention centre at ₹51.87 crore inside a ₹147.66 crore approval.

On film

The ceremony, as broadcast

IBC24. The foundation at Tuta. The report names Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, and ministers Rajesh Agrawal and Kedar Kashyap, as present. Watch on YouTube
PTI. PTI’s film on the project. The headline rounds the Chief Minister’s two phases. The figures he stated are ₹150 crore, then ₹250–300 crore. Watch on YouTube

The film city

What an official said will be built

PTI, the same evening, quoted an official on the film city: street, station and airport sets, a toy museum, a snow world, hotels, restaurants, a multiplex and an experience centre. The point, as the Chief Minister put it, is that local filmmakers get the technical facilities in one place, and that crews from outside the state can shoot in Raipur.

ANI’s release calls the first phase about 95 acres, created by Tarun Rathi and developed by Rajnandini Entertainment Ltd and Indradeep Infra Ltd, under the Union tourism ministry’s Special Assistance scheme. Variety describes it as positioned to be a fully equipped international film city. That “first in India” line is the promoters’ claim, carried by ANI. It is not a ranking this page treats as settled.

The convention centre

A hall for about 1,500

The same official told PTI the Tribal and Cultural Convention Centre would have a hall for about 1,500 people, plus meeting rooms, conference halls, a banquet, restaurants, guest rooms, a gym, a library, a swimming pool and an administrative block.

India Exposition Mart Limited and the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts are in the plan. Their chairmen, Rakesh Kumar and Neeraj Khanna, are tied in the reports to an exhibition centre, a trade mart, a hotel, business showrooms and a helipad, meant for artisans, tribal communities, small firms and skilled workers. Those are roles described at the ceremony, not a list of finished buildings.

Bhoomi pujan before the Chitrotpala foundation
The bhoomi pujan at Tuta, before the foundation stone. Rajesh Agrawal was among the ministers present.

Proposals, not contracts

Four papers handed to the Chief Minister

PTI reported that after the ceremony the tourism department had four proposals, and that they were handed to the Chief Minister that day.

  1. 1Anil Sharma. Producer of Gadar. He proposed to make his next film at Chitrotpala.
  2. 2Rakesh Kumar. India Exposition Mart Limited. An international exhibition centre and trade mart at the convention centre.
  3. 3Neeraj Khanna. Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts. A handicrafts and gifts fair.
  4. 4Ashutosh Vajpayee. AT Films Hollywood. Hollywood films and streaming work at the city.

ANI and Variety also reported early talk that productions including Golmaal 5 might look at the site once it is working. That is discussion, reported from a release. No film is treated here as booked.

Already shot in the state

Why the official spoke of a film industry

The same PTI account listed work already filmed in Chhattisgarh, as the reason given for building a city rather than waiting for one: Newton, Jehanabad, Kaun Pravin Tambe?, The Great Indian Murder, and Gram Chikitsalaya. Rajesh Agrawal, quoted by Chhattisgarh Top News, said the state had in recent years become a place filmmakers choose, and that the day’s work was a base for its cultural, economic and creative future. He said there was a plan to finish the projects and dedicate them within two years.

The day was not only the start of a building. He called it a foundation for the state’s cultural, economic and creative future.

Rajesh Agrawal, as reported by Chhattisgarh Top News, 24 January 2026. The foundation itself was performed by the Chief Minister.
Rajesh Agrawal lighting a ceremonial lamp
Rajesh Agrawal lighting a lamp at a 2026 industry gathering. The backdrop is a market event. It is a photograph of him, not of the foundation at Tuta.
The 26 August 2026 tourism briefing in Nava Raipur
26 August 2026, Nava Raipur. The photograph Indian Masterminds published with its account of the briefing.

A later set of figures

The August 2026 briefing

At that press conference, Indian Masterminds reported two figures from the departmental account. They sit beside the January sanction and the Chief Minister’s phase-wise amounts.

Proposals drawn
₹203.53 crore
Film city and centre
About ₹350 crore

The November 2024 sanction came earlier. On the Chief Minister’s direction, Tourism Board managing director Vivek Acharya met Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in New Delhi on 15 October 2024 with proposals worth ₹300 crore. PTI reported on 29 November 2024 that the Centre then cleared ₹147.66 crore.

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