Innovative Film City- an indulging experience with family!

Thinking of some perfect weekend get-away with family? Then, IFC is the right option!
Not too far away from the heart of the Bangalore, it takes about an hour approximately to reach Innovative Film City . The journey to this place is  pleasurable along the well laid Mysore road. [Landmarks:Toyota motors factory,Bidadi Industrial Area, Coco Cola plant.]

Once you reach there, you will simply be amazed to look at the amazing art on the walls of the entrance!! It is unique and fortress like with picture posters of movies on it. Colorful with the banners of the items they offer, it truly is a royal welcome!

At IFC, you have an option to choose the kind of ticket you wanna purchase: a combo 799, combo 899 or just 50 bucks entrance. My suggestion is this-if its a gang of all youngsters, choose between 799 or 899 combo offer which allows u to play almost all of those games there. But if it is with some elderly folks that you are going, take just the 50 bucks ticket and pay later for each of the games they play. This way, it is a reasonable fare.

The tickets have the items printed on them, they also provide you with a map which comes in handy there as there arent any indicative sign boards. (cud spot a few only). At each of the game counters, they neatly punch on the ticket to mark ur entry to that game (innovative indeed!) 

The first of the attractions is "Mirror maze": a dark hall with  mirrors confusing your way out - the maze effect comes there- a good one i must say! With the staff guiding and misguiding you in there, it was fun to make our way out.

The next in the list was "Dino park", "Fossil Museum" and "Fossil Hunt". From outside, Dino park scared me with its sounds but it wasnt scary inside. Infact it was a neatly done park like place with tall bamboo all over giving you the forest feel and a few roaring dino models. They had descriptive boards telling you abt the species and habitat of those dinos.

The museum wasnt too great but worth a visit. The fossil hunt was an utter waste- all i did there was some gardening skills in the process of searching the fossils.      

The next best thing was the Karting event "Velocity": a small lap but some fun! They have 2 varieties of cars: a family car (capacity:2 members, lower speed limits) and another smaller car (capacity:1 member, better speed limits and power). 

After this was the "Mini Golf" and "cartoon city"- not so great.. but good fun for small kids. Cartoon city offers some games for kids like dashing cars, some other littlr games which we dint check out much.

The next good thing was the "Aqua kingdom"- an artificially created beech (more like a water pool. There was a DJ type playing some music to keep the people lively.. Everyone was so lost in their world that none paid attention to the Music or his DJying. But i call it good for a reason that it is really well made with a feel like u r on an actual beech- with some benches to relax and some stalls selling beech tees, hats and swim wear!

Louis Tussad's museum was the next item- a very nice try to immitate the Tussad's museum in London.  I personally dint like it and laughed at the statues there: Pierce Brossnan - the 007 guy looked so pale , Angelina lost her identity (no big fat lips) , Mother Teresa looked like an African-American lady, Marilyn looked so non-magnetic. 

The next of the items are "Haunted Mansion", "Roller skaters", "Ripley's believe it or not"- all these were just for time pass.. But yeah, Skates wud be fun if we had some time for it i guess.

A few more items there were Funplex 4D animation etc etc which we dint check out as we ran out of time.

I would say the over all feel was great for a very big reason that IFC has atleast a thing or two to offer for every age group. The place is clean, sofisticated and classy. The food courts are commendable and a nice thing in the whole of IFC was the drinking water availablity- was really needed in the scorching sun!

I would rate it a 3 on 5 .. making it a place to visit! Plan now n visit there once atleast.. get the virtual feel of it @  http://www.innovativefilmcity.in/!