Nine years after it decided to convert a garden in Thane’s Lokmanya Nagar into a Bollywood theme park, the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has still not been able to make good on its commitment. Fed up with the neglected plot which has become a haunt for drug addicts and anti-social elements, locals are demanding that the TMC just develop a regular park and complete the project.

The TMC had taken up the work of converting the Appa Saheb Patil Garden of Lokmanya Nagar into a Bollywood park. Its ground-breaking ceremony was held on August 25, 2014. Since then, the theme park remains under development.