Built for Kantara.
Open for your production.
A 22,000 sq ft fully air-conditioned shooting floor with 40-foot clear height, on a 35-acre coastal estate with its own accommodation, helipad and 2.20 lakh sq ft of shootable ground.
A clear span, ready to dress
UVA Meridian Film Studio is a single clear-span, fully air-conditioned shooting floor carrying 40 feet of working height above the deck — built for productions that need scale and privacy in the same place.
The floor is handed over clear. No permanent sets, no fixed rigging plan and no house look to design around — art departments arrive with their own build, their own flooring and their own lighting plot, and strike it when they wrap. It is a studio floor in the proper sense: the space takes the shape of the film.
- 22,000Sq ft single floor
- 40 ftClear working height
- Full A/CAcross the floor
- 2.20 lakhSq ft shootable estate
Features, commercials, and everything between
The floor has carried pan-Indian feature work and national advertising in the same year. Scale up or down to suit the shoot.
Feature films
Clear-span floor for large indoor builds, with a secure estate and cast accommodation on the same site.
TV commercials & ad films
Quick in-and-out schedules with controlled light, plus coastal exteriors minutes away for the same campaign.
Music videos
Floor, lawns, pool deck, amphitheatre and beachfront within one gate — several looks in a single day.
Short films & independents
A professional floor without a metro-city rate card, and accommodation that keeps a small unit together.
Web & OTT series
Long-schedule work with crew resident on site, reducing daily unit movement across a multi-week shoot.
Post-production & dubbing
Units have based long post schedules here, with quiet, serviced accommodation for extended stays.
What has already been made here
Kantara
Hombale FilmsRishab Shetty has publicly said that the closely guarded indoor sequences, the major climax sequences and the Kulashekara bedroom scenes were filmed inside this studio.
Kantara: Chapter 1
Hombale FilmsThe 22,000 sq ft air-conditioned floor was purpose-built for this production, and all of its indoor sequences were shot here. The wider estate served as the private, secured base of operations for the unit.
Salaar
Post-productionPost-production work for the film was carried out at the property.
K.G.F: Chapter 2
Resident post teamThe post-production team was based at UVA Meridian for more than a year, with twenty rooms held for the unit throughout.
Ram Raj Cotton
National TV commercialThe grounds were the backdrop for the brand’s national campaign starring Rishab Shetty.
Music video — Ravi Basrur
On propertyShot on the estate by the composer and music director.
Why Kundapura and Udupi district
Coastal Karnataka gives a unit sea, hills, forest, river and village within the same district — which is why so much of what audiences now recognise as the region’s look was shot here. The studio sits in the middle of it, so exteriors and the floor are part of the same schedule rather than two separate trips.
Beaches & coastline
Open sand, rocky shore and estuary within easy reach for sunrise and sunset work.
Hills & forest
The Western Ghats rise inland, giving elevation, canopy and waterfalls for the same production.
Backwaters & paddy
River, backwater and farmland country for period, rural and devotional settings.
Workable weather
A long dry stretch outside the monsoon with consistent coastal light through the shooting day.
Film-friendly people
Communities here are used to units working nearby and to supporting them, which keeps location days moving.
One base, many looks
Floor, lawns, pool deck, amphitheatre and beachfront on one estate — several setups without moving unit.
A production hub, not just a location
The studio exists because of a clear ambition: that Udupi district should be a place films are made, not only a place they are shot. Uday Kumar Shetty and Vinay Kumar Shetty have been building towards a working film city on the Karnataka coast — one where a production finds its floor, its locations, its accommodation and its post facilities without ever leaving the district.
Every production that bases itself here adds to that: crews who know the terrain, vendors who have done it before, and a local film economy that grows with each schedule.
That ecosystem already reaches past the floor. When the K.G.F: Chapter 2 post-production team was based at UVA Meridian, its sound work was done at Ravi Basrur’s studio — the composer behind K.G.F and Salaar — close enough that a unit can live on the estate and work on score across the same stretch of weeks.
For a production deciding where to handle music and background score, that is a rare thing to find outside a metro.
Your unit stays on site
Productions have based themselves here for months at a time, and not for the floor alone — cast, crew and post teams sleep on the same secured estate they work on. Hombale Films used the property exactly this way.
Rooms on the estate
Across five categories at UVA Meridian Bay Resort, a short walk from the floor.
Sister properties
UVA Manish, a business-class hotel, and UVA Sands Beach Resort absorb larger units and can be held for principal cast.
On-site helipad
Principal cast and executives can arrive and leave directly, without a road leg or a public airport transfer.
Vehicle parking
Room for unit trucks, vanity vans, generators and crew transport without blocking the floor.
What the industry says about it
Directors, actors, art directors and composers who have worked and stayed here, in their own recordings.
Since Kantara, enquiries have arrived from Hindi and Malayalam productions alongside Kannada cinema — for shooting, and increasingly for dubbing and post schedules as well.
Discussions are currently under way with a major production house regarding a series for a leading OTT platform.
Useful once you are here
1,200-seat auditorium
The theatre-style convention hall works for previews, cast-and-crew screenings and press events.
Catering for a full unit
Five restaurants on the estate and dining capacity matched to the halls, for unit meals at any hour.
Privacy & security
A gated 35-acre estate that has already served as a closed base for a production working under embargo.
Downtime that works
Pool, spa, sports courts and the amusement park keep a resident unit occupied between schedules.
Tell us about the shoot
Send the format, your shoot window and the number of crew and cast needing accommodation, and we will come back on floor availability and rooms together.
UVA Meridian Film Studio · Halady Road, Koteshwar, Kundapur, Udupi district, Karnataka