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Kolkata

capital city of West Bengal, India

🇮🇳 India · 22.5675, 88.3700

Kolkata is recorded as a filming location for 3 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Kolkata, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 7 more.

5 places inside Kolkata have a page of their own — listed below. Everything shot at them is already named above, recorded against Kolkata as well.

“After the shooting of Mahaan concluded, the team restarted production on 15 August 2021, with the commencement of a minor schedule in Kolkata.”

Cobra (2022) · Wikipedia

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Movies filmed in Kolkata

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Kolkata as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Pather Panchali 1955
Love Aaj Kal 2009
“Few scenes were also shot at the railway station of Patiala, in London, San Francisco, and Kolkata.” Wikipedia
Raavanan 2010
The Japanese Wife 2010
“The shooting locations are Kolkata and Sundarbans in Bengal and the Japanese cities of Yokohama and Tsukuba, Ibaraki.” Wikipedia
Tamasha 2015
“Tamasha was filmed in the Indian cities of Shimla, Delhi, Gurgaon, and Kolkata, with additional filming in Tokyo and Corsica.” Wikipedia
Naayak 2013
“The film was extensively shot in Hyderabad and Kolkata, while a couple of the songs were shot in Dubai, Iceland, and Slovenia, making Naayak the first Indian film to be shot in Slovenia.” Wikipedia
Heeralal Pannalal 1999
“Predominantly shot in Ooty, portions of the filming took places in Kolkata and Mumbai.” Wikipedia

Filming locations inside Kolkata

5 places inside Kolkata, each with a page of their own. Every production shot at them is already listed above, because Wikidata records them against Kolkata too.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Kolkata, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Kolkata?

10 productions are recorded as filmed in Kolkata, including Lion (2015), Kahaani (2012) and Cobra (2022). 7 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Kolkata?

Lion (2015), covered by 45 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Kolkata?

Kolkata is in India, at 22.5675, 88.3700.

What other filming locations are near Kolkata?

Ballygunge, Howrah Bridge, Kalighat, Kumortuli and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Ketanmehta4u, CC BY-SA 3.0.