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London Mayor savours Mumbai

Meena Menon

Travels by local train, visits Film City

MUMBAI: London Mayor Ken Livingstone savoured Mumbai on Wednesday, travelling by the local train just before the peak hour rush and visiting the Film City to witness the signing of a city-to-city agreement by Film London, London’s film and media agency, and the Film and Television Producers Guild of India.

Western Railway chief public relations officer Pranai Prabhakar, who accompanied Mr. Livingstone from the Bandra station to Churchgate said the Mayor was keen on knowing details about the number of passengers the local trains carried everyday and the various investments to upgrade the services.

Greeted all the way

Mumbai’s suburban trains carry 6.3 million people everyday as opposed to four million in London. Reacting to the crowd that had gathered by the time he reached Churchgate, the London Mayor said that this was the second time so many people had waved to him in his life — the first being when he was elected mayor!

Earlier at the Film City, at the Whistling Woods Film School, actor Amitabh Bachchan joined Mr. Livingstone for the function which was attended by Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London, Sandy Lieberson, chair of Film London and Ronnie Screwvala, president of the Film and Television Guild of India.

The signatories will work together to share ideas and best practices on domestic and international film production and promotion.

The signing of the agreement is part of a week-long series of events organised by Film London to share knowledge and understanding between the film sectors of Indian and the U.K. film sectors.

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