Mithun's Dream Factory is an Indian film studio based in

Ooty Ooty (; officially Udagamandalam (), Anglicisation, anglicized: Ootacamund , abbreviated as Udagai, ) is a town and municipality in the Nilgiris district of the Indian States and territories of India, state of Tamil Nadu. It is located north ...

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, film producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur and politician who predominantly works in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. In a career spa ...

left the

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based film industry in the early 1990s as he shifted his base to

to concentrate on his hotel business. He set up the hotel Monarch in Ooty and chose to act only in films which were shot at Ooty and nearby locales. This strategy paid off as the film crew could stay in his hotel, the Monarch, for discounted rates, and complete the film in a single schedule. Chakraborty's limited budget movies soon started flowing, as every month saw a Chakraborty release. These movies were profitable, but were often ignored by critics and were categorized as

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(

low-budget A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the mainstream circuit with inexperienced o ...

films). He paid more tax than anyone else in the

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film industry in the country between 1995 and 1999. Chakraborty also holds the record of appearing in the highest number of Hindi films as hero (over 250 films).

Selected filmography

Snippets

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wrote an article for

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in which Chakraborty is referred as "The

(

) King". ''SCREEN Weekly'' carried a cover story calling him "Mithun - The Miracle Man", both covering the Ooty-based film production phenomenon. ''Outlook Magazine'' mentioned the same. ''

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Magazine'' in May 1998 published the same phenomenon under the title "Believe it or not... The unusually - safe suthri story of Mithun Chakraborty". Rediff addressed Chakraborty as "That indefatigable Movie Machine". Director

T L V Prasad T. L. V. Prasad is an Indian film director who predominantly worked in Hindi and Telugu cinema.. He is the director of nearly 70 Hindi films and 35 Telugu films. He also directed a few films in Bengali cinema. Career He is the son of noted ...

made more than 25 Chakraborty films.

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