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Delicious food being serve by chef at Hotel Park in Chennai. The Park Chennai is a five-star deluxe hotel located at the Anna Flyover junction on the erstwhile Gemini Studios premises on Anna Salai, Chennai, India. The hotel, part of the Apeejay Surrendra group, was opened on 15 May 2002 at an investment of around INR 1,000 million. The place where The Park hotel stands today was the location of the Gemini Studios, a historic film studio since the 1940s. S. S. Vasan, a Tamil film maker, bought the Motion Picture Producers' Combines studio of his friend K. Subramaniam, which was destroyed by a fire in 1940, on Mount Road in 1940 in a court auction for INR 86,427-11-9, the odd figure arrived at through including the interest on unpaid wages of the employees. The studio was rebuilt and opened