The Department of Tourism has drawn up plans to develop all the 18 locations associated with 'Life of Pi', which bagged Oscar awards in the categories of best direction, best original score, best cinematography and best visual effects at the 85th Academy Awards.
"The news of the Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi' bagging a big number of awards is most thrilling and exciting," Director of Puducherry Tourism Dr A S Sivakumar told PTI here.
Sivakumar said the movie shot between 2009 and 2010 in Puducherry associated the venues like the more than century old government botanical garden, the beach road, a few places of worship of different hues and also the residential zones of the Tamil and French population in the union territory.
He said the government had drawn up plans to promote the locations where the movie's big chunk had been shot in Puducherry.
Sivakumar said that a team of Puducherry Government officials had held discussions with the top brass in the Union Ministry of Tourism some months ago and a road show had also been scheduled to be held in Hong Kong, Taiwan and a few other countries in the South Asian block.
"We will be able to showcase Puducherry abroad through this film and this would enable us to bring more tourists from China and other pockets to the southern parts of India and more specifically to Puducherry as the tourists normally visit the Buddhist circuits in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar," he said.