"We are committed to the national heritage mission and will be celebrating 100-years of Indian cinema in 2013 for which we are setting up a national museum of Indian cinema in Mumbai...we have already allocated Rs 650-crore for the same," said Soni.

In addition to opening a museum for Indian cinema government is also planning to open a National Center for Animation, Gaming and Visual Effects industry in order to provide enhanced technological tools to filmmakers.

The government has set a sum of Rs. 520 million for the institute.

Plan to set up institutes already in motion
Soni said that government is committed to the plan and is taking all the necessary steps to ensure that the museum for moving images gets constructed in Mumbai by 2013.

She also mentioned that architectural plan and the guidelines drawn for the project are already presented to the Union Cabinet for their approval.

Soni said that the pirates of software will be dealt with heavy hand and no one will be permitted to “hijack the law of the land” and prevent the release of any film in the future.

Others present at the occasion were, tennis star turned Hollywood filmmaker Ashok Amritraj, FICCI Entertainment Committee Chairman Yash Chopra, Dutch Consul General Marijke van Drunen Little, actor Vidya Balan and FICCI Secretary General Amit Mitra.

Ambika to help film industry with service tax problem
I&B minister Ambika Soni also said that she will be trying her level best to the service tax bill proposed in the recent Budget on film industry because it amounts to double taxation.

“I do not want the film industry to be unhappy about the double tax. You cannot charge service and value added tax (VAT) on the same item. You already charge service tax on the input cost; you should not charge it on the output,” said Soni.