Bollywood Museum-Architectural Thesis

BOLLYWOOD MUSEUM, MUMBAI The museum for Indian pic referred to as BOLLYWOOD MUSEUM, is an beginning(a) by Ministry of film and b highwaycasting, Govt. of India to celebrate 100 years of Indian moving picture. The manoeuver of externalise is to en electric arcen the people and future generations about the glory of our moving-picture show industry and enlighten them about the people who do our country the largest cinema industry of world. As per the brief from the ministry, the major exhibits in the museum would be Artef presents, equipments standardized Cameras, Editing, & Recording Machines, Projectors etc. Costumes, Photographs and other material are proposed to be unploughed in the Museum. The properties, dresses, sets, tapes, vintage equipment, posters, copies of important films, prints, promotional leaflets, developing equipment books, biographies, sound tracks, trailers, transparencies, Cinema magazines, statistics coering film distribution etc. to be displayed in a sy stematic arrangement depicting the history in a chronological manner, will be procured through donations and in any case by purchase.There will also be a Museum shop which will sell the copies/photographs etc. of the vintage items, books and booklets on the work of noted film makers and mementoes. The site chosen for the project is in the premises of the Film division hitice on Pedder road in south Mumbai. The site consists of existing office structures, a depository library build in dilapidated condition which would be replaced by a new building in the design and a century elder construction known as Gulshan Mahal. The rejuvenation of this building ashess the major architectural concern for the project.This building awarded with urban Heritage award in 2001 was formly apply as a shooting set and now would form the briny component of the confuse design. The building would be rejuvenated with an active plaza in front of it. The design of the museum was evolved from the basic unit of film industry the reel. The form of the building was inspired from the spooling film over the reels. The circulation of the museum aims at giving the visitant a complete route of the Indian cinema industry from action to people, evolution to screening. The route of circulation defines the take shape of building.The dynamic form of the building makes it unmingled. The design process started with identification of the programmes to be introduced in the building. The programme was split into three major categories based on function named as museum, mercenary and library. The museum building would house the administrative areas and the exhibits of the museum. The new library building is plan to replace the existing library building which was in dilapidated condition. The commercialized area was planned to house a souvenier shop, cafeteria and a restaurant.All the three areas were made approachable through the same plaza from the subside off point. The drop off point am idst the three building mingledes was destineed to give the visitor a feeling of apparently entering the building from the car. The design of the complex was made to frame the Gulshan Mahal in the new building, as viewed from the drop off point. The visitor is tending(p) a grand welcome in the museum building with a grand atrium with a skylight on top which introduces light inside and hence visually adds to the volume of the space. The museum galleries were designed as per the given requirement of the exhibit by the ministry.The exhibits were divided as per their use in industry and its impact. Apart from the given requirements, some new galleries were introduced. The circulation of the building starts with the installation drift and with each changing exhibit area, the level rises upto 1m and hence aftermath the different stages of production of a movie, the visitor reaches the higher level of building exhibiting the costumes and props used in the industry. from where it move s to the other part of the building through a connecting bridge exhibiting the life and works pf Dadasaheb Phulke known as the vex of the Indian Cinema.The similar concept of rising levels with the exhibits apply for the subsequent collection of the changing trends in the movies. Reaching the higher level, the visitor passes through the gallery exhibiting the life and works of film makers which connects the library building to the commercial building. retell the concept of rising levels, with music and dance galleries, the visitor reaches back to the museum complex through the gallery of life of actors/actresses. The highest level houses the screening area which intend to screen the rare and special movies or may be used while film festivals. he route of the museum acts like the film spooling over the three reels of musum, library and commercial building and thus defines the overall shape of the museum. The rising levels, connecting bridges give it its dynamic shape. The central plaza in front of the Gulshan Mahal is intended to add activity in the complex devising it more lively and thus gives a welcoming approach to the Urban Heritage building which has lost its importance over time. This building shall be retained as a live shooting set which would act as a museum for the equipments used during shooting.An informal seating space in the plaza is planned to address the groups educating them about the place and the industry. The concept screw the planning of Bollywood museum is to create a sculpture that relates to the industry it is exhibiting with interesting twists and turns which tie to our masala Indian Movies. 1 . Source NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDIAN CINEMA Ministry of selective information & Broadcasting Government of India Films Division Complex 24-Dr. G. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai-400 026. Email emailprotected org / website www. filmsdivision. org