Ashutosh Gowarikar at Locations party

Post Event Release -Sudarshan Hukku ‘s “locations “initiative was worth accolades .“The World’s First Film Tourism Event” is only event-of-its-kind in the world, is based on the concept ‘Films are Catalysts to Tourism’ held in Mumbai in its 8th Edition .

The inauguration was done by Sushama Shiromanee with lighting of diya with various stalls from Thailand,canada,fiji,France etc on display . Sudanshu Hukku was busy whole day ,he looked perfectly dressed and was busy organising the nitty gritties and meeting and greeting delegates

Locations was launched by Sudhanshu Hukku with an Ad in Variety Cannes Special –d“in May 2003 with a vision to create a single point structure to bridge the film and tourism industry. Since then it has flourished and travelled to 2010 in its 8th edition. A location is a pioneer in the field of film tourism, conducting exhibitions, conferences and “Locations” Awards on an annual basis. It successfully creates a Niche of Film Tourism.

The 2 day event comprising of exhibition, conference, presentation, informal gathering and above all the awards are being successfully conducted on an annual basis since last 8 years. It had been witnessed by Indian state tourism, various Embassies, Consulates, Film commission, tourism boards of various countries. Besides that, there has been active participation by the local entities like the line producers, technicians, tours and travel operator, hospitality owners, fashion houses, agencies, cruise owners and so on in the last eight years.

The foreign delegates were enthusiastic for an association with bollywood . The evening awards ceremony was a hyped event as it was about LOCATIONS and the entire industry thronged as LOCATIONS is an integral part of our film making and viewing

Sajid nadiadwala received an award for shooting his film in foriegn locations specifically for housefull ,Ashutosh Gowarikar was present to give life time achievement award to Surinder Kapoor and said he was happy to be seeing LOCATION going places and doing the fraternity pride

Prashant Shirsat a film enthusiast was there to explore some locations Sartaj Singh Pannu was seen after his film “soch lo”release Samir kochhar was called to give an award vipul shah’s london dreams -received the best location award for indian film, barbara mori received for the best actress in foreign location Salman Khan for best actor Prive Locations -Pg thomas package offer for foreign films -florins swami kites got for aesthtic presentation foreign location .

Yuvika chaudhary wore a green outfit ,Vishal bhonsle looked tough as ever and was loving his bollywood connect ,Vinita Menon looked gorgeous in a Peacock blue Outfit ,Umesh Pherwani was in a red shirt ,Sheizwood and ajaz khan too bonded over the latest release of ajaz khan “raktchirtara ”

Sai shakti and Sharbani Deodhar walked in together and Shrabani Deodhar was on board of Locations Avesh Dadlani walked in late from his fashion show rehearsals Shifanajal Shekhar was dorning beautiful beige Gown for the evening Dharmesh Tiwari,Babubhai Thiba Who had co organised the event “Locations” was a successful event