Hyderabad, April 23 -- A riveting piece of film history in Hyderabad is bound up in Ramoji Film City, Nitish Roy, and the conjunctions of art and architecture.

The following is the story about one of the iconic spaces of our city. Ramoji Rao garu asked Nitish Roy, who was working on the set design of the film Loafer in Hyderabad and the winner of several National awards for art direction by then, to join him to build Ramoji Film City.

Connecting art and architecture

This story is illustrative of the important tie between architecture and art direction. A tie that is built on a shared purpose in the creative use of spaces and in making spaces speak. Both disciplines work to shape our sense of space and place by expressing and incorporat...