South Delhi Residents Will Soon Have A Bollywood Park and Dinosaur Park In Their Neighbourhood

The municipal corporation of South Delhi recently approved the development of two theme parks in the region. The Bollywood theme park will take visitors through the evolution of Indian cinema, while the dinosaur park will serve as an entertaining means of learning for children. Here’s what we know so far. By Eshita Srinivas

In a standing committee meeting late last week, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) announced the creation of a Bollywood park in Jangpura and the addition of a dinosaur park to the Waste to Wonder park at Ganga Vihar. Earlier proposed as a public-private partnership, the corporation is now solely responsible for the venture, which follows the success of the Waste-to-Wonder park and Bharat Darshan park at Punjabi Bagh in the city.

Sculptures in Bollywood park and Dinosaur park will be made out of waste material

The Bollywood park will feature several artefacts, scenes of popular songs, sculptures, and cut-outs of actors that will narrate the history of Indian cinema and its evolution through the years. The chairman of the standing committee BK Oberoi noted, “The Bollywood Park will be built in an old park in Jangpura. This will be a unique park where artists will display the evolution of Indian cinema right from the first movie Raja Harishchandra to contemporary films. Along with Hindi cinema, we will also try to showcase the history of other language cinema as well,” according to a report by Business Standard.

The park will span five acres, and the estimated cost of construction is set at INR 25 crore, from which INR 4 crore will be used for maintenance and operation purposes. All the replicas will be built with recycled material from vehicles, fans, iron rods, unused nuts and bolts, and other discarded material at the SDMC stores, Indian Express reports.

In a similar venture, the civic body will expand the popular “Waste to Wonder” park with a dinosaur park for children. Scrap material will be used for the sculptures and replicas here as well. The park is slated to be three-acre large in a vacant part of the theme park. BK Oberoi added in a report by DNA, “The arrangement will also be made that each replica of a dinosaur produces the sound that the particular species used to produce.”

Apart from this, the SDMC has proposed further development of Shaheed Park and Bharat Darshan Park. The former might feature additional replicas of historical leaders and kings, like Sardar Parel and Chandragupta Maurya, while the latter might soon be home to historical monuments of all the states and union territories that could not be covered in the first phase of the project.

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