Chithranjali Studio

Chitranjali is located on a beautiful hilltop at Thiruvallam just eight kms away from Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Seventy five acres of sprawling grounds, of all topographical descriptions, like meadows, fields, coconut groves, barren stretches, cliffs and vantage points from where the sea can be seen, extensive areas where sets of a village, a market, a temple, or anything on a large scale can be put up, all these together make Chitranjali Kerala's only Studio in the holistic sense.

The indoor studio of Chitranjali covers 12,000 Sq. ft making it the second largest floor in Asia. This giant floor is sound proof and has a ceiling 50 ft. high. Chitranjali is just a few minutes away from the internationally renowned Kovalam beach.

Technical Facilities offered by Chithranjali

Chithranjali has 4 Outdoor Film units with bound Vans and state of the art equipments.
The printing process is completely computerised, with a Hazeltime Colour Film Analyser for grading. Facilities are available to process and print 35 mm and 16 mm colour and black & white film, and also for reduction from 35 mm film to 16 mm, and for blowing up 16 mm into 35 mm.

The technical sophistication of the recording equipment and the expertise of the personnel bring producers and directors from all over the country to Chitranjali.

The Conventional Recording Theatre has Analog Recording facilities. This has a rock-n-roll projector with 4 track recording on MagnaTech 35 mm recording system.

The Tascam D-8000 Digital mixer has 24 Channels and 8 outputs. There is also a Tascam DA 98 Digital Recorder.

Sound & Editing

DTS mixing facility is provided with the cooperation of M/s. Real Image Media Technologies, Chennai.
The two units in Sound Scape Work station together have 24 tracks at any number of virtual tracks.
The conventional Editing has moviolas.

A separate Mini Theater that can seat upto 100 people, right in the studio for the first screening or for screening before a select audience.

Reaching Chitranjali from anywhere by air is easy. Accommodation at Thiruvananthapuram is nice and pleasant. Highly competent technicians, excellent musicians, creative artistes are just a local call away. Film making in Chitranjali is extremely cost- effective, even for getting the cash subsidy of Rs. 4 lakhs provided by government of Kerala for the films produced using with the facilities of Chitranjali.

National and International success stories of the films produced with the facilities of Chitranjali have found common place in the celluloid arena.

The non-liner Editing unit has Discreet Logi Edit using sling shot as the match back software.