If there is one production house that is on a roll, it’s got to be UTV.
Over the last few years, the have given us Kaminey, Dev.D, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Bluffmaster, Swades, Parineeta, Rang De Basanti, Life in a Metro, Aamir. Their forthcoming flicks include Paan Singh Tomar, Peter Gaya Kaam Se, Alibaba Aur 41 Chor and Arjun – The Warrior Prince
It’s literally the complete list of the best movies to have released of late.
The facebook fan page of UTV has over 2355 fans and twitter account has 1928 followers, which is a little less when you consider that their valuation is at $321 million. UTV ‘Spotboy’, which got Dev.D into this world, had also made it to the US top 20 distributors in 2008.
But as they say, a company is only as good as the people driving it. So it’s not surprising that the UTV group as a whole was started by Ronnie Screwvala who is a self made entrepreneur with a story worth knowing. He created the first organised cable TV network in India around 1981, when he was just 19 years old. Soon he was into making advertisements, producing TV shows, and finally he managed to get into movies.
At age 28, Ronnie Screwvala started UTV Software Communications and just five years later they went public. Walt Disney currently owns 32.1 percent share in the company.
They also recently started Hungama TV, which became the most watched channel in it’s genre, and who gave us Shin Chan. They also acquired Indiagames last year, from entrepreneur Vishal Gondal.
Anyways, the whole point of the post is that I just heard that their Chief Creative Officer and the COO have resigned, and I have just been thinking if I should let them know if I am interested in the opening… What do you think?
I didn’ know Ronnie Screwvala was such a big shot! Would like to meet him someday!!
Ha. Me too
I think you should ask Screwvala to fill in their posts and you should take over as the head.
Even better would be to start off on your own and then acquire them laterz. I’ll co-ordinate the acquisition-talks if you want.
I must sleep.
I must wake.
That’s interesting! But i guess Screwvala haven’t raised there salaries and so they resigned
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