Ramoji Film City
Spread across more than 2,000 acres on the eastern outskirts of Hyderabad, Ramoji Film City holds the official Guinness World Record as the largest integrated film studio complex anywhere on Earth. Beneath its glamorous soundstages, replica European city streets, artificial railway stations, and sprawling amusement parks lies a grim, violent history. The massive development site was constructed directly over land that served as a bloody medieval battlefield during the centuries of rule under the Nizams of Hyderabad, where thousands of soldiers perished in brutal warfare. Today, high-budget movie sets and luxurious hotel green rooms are famous throughout the Indian film industry for inexplicable paranormal activity, ranging from unseen forces pushing stage lighting technicians off high ladders to mysterious archaic Urdu inscriptions appearing on fogged hotel bathroom mirrors.