Darjeeling’s toy train is not just a popular tourist attraction, but it’s also a favourite filming location. It attracts a number of filmmakers because it is a world-famous toy train on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and a UNESCO World Heritage site. To make things easier, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has created an internet platform where anybody can apply for permission to shoot a film on the toy train or on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway’s grounds.
Now plan and fix your shooting program at the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with just clicks of the mouse @RailMinIndia pic.twitter.com/OaCqbDIrcA
— Northeast Frontier Railway (@RailNf) July 4, 2021
The elegance of this miniature railway has drawn travellers from all over the world. A romantic toy train journey over the hills is popular with tourists, and film fans frequent the area for filming.
Also Read: Darjeeling Toy Train: Guide, Fare, Timing, Booking, Route
According to a representative for the NFR, “For almost seven decades, filmmakers from Bollywood, Tollywood (Kolkata-based Bengali film industry) and other regional cinema hubs used to come all the way to Guwahati or send their representatives for elaborate formalities. They can now do it with the click of a button on the new DHR booking site.”
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Over 20 Bollywood films have been shot in the Darjeeling area too far. Parineeta (2005), Barfi (2012), and Jagga Jasoos are a few contemporary examples (2017). Filmmakers are always drawn to the gorgeous and iconic sites for filming.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was built between 1879 and 1881, and it runs for 88 kilometres from New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, which is around 100 metres above sea level, to Darjeeling, which is about 2200 metres.
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