Which are the richest production houses in Bollywood?
Mysterious place where most films are produced by money from underworld or borrowing from financiers by paying hefty interests. So it is tough to guess which are genuinely rich production houses.
Having said this I will hazard a guess on basis of media reports to help share with you film production houses which have built a good networrh in their books and as of now are financially strong.
So here we go :
“From Loss Making Film Banner to A Behemoth"
His father carried briefcases of the stars who acted in the movies produced by him. It was his way to keep stars in good humor so that he gets their cooperation.
Barring one movie all movies produced by this producer bombed and their financial condition was in doldrums and hectic his house mostly from his earnings from his small export business.
His father almost sold his only three bedroom flat after suffering losses in film making.
Then he died.
His son was at his emotional worst.
After the death of his father he was completely lost.
It took him weeks to come out of the shock of his father's death.
He knew nothing about how to run a production house. He was inexperienced in managing a Film Production Company.
Helpless, he decided to close the studio and wind up the film production banner started by his father.
But....
…as are mysterious ways of nature, suddenly the fatherless son was handed a life line by God.
One fine day a certain Mr. Anil Ambani met the youngman and handed him a sealed envelope to him which he said his father has asked him to give to his son after his death.
With heavy heart, the young man opened the envelope.
And what he got from the envelop left him mesmerised at the forsight of his late father.
The contents of the enveloped made him overwhelmed with emotions.
He could not believe his eyes when the impact of the contents of envelop started settling in his mind which was in a whirlwind.
In the envelop he found papers which detailed persons whom his father owed money, and all those who owed money to his father.
Through his letters his father has warned him about certain persons who he was advised not to trust as well as the persons whom he could trust to run the studio.
Those documents made the son realize that his father wanted their production house to be in existence.
His father has detailed hota on how to run the business.
Tearful the young man thanked Anil Ambani, the bearer if that sealed envelop and...
…he not only went on to revive the production banner that his father established but made it a force to reckon with in film business.
W.hile working with other directors his father had never tasted the kind of the success that he tasted with movie directed by his son Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
The very first movie directed by his son proved to be the biggest profit generating venture from the Banner Dharma Productions.
The stupendous succeess of his Son's first directorial venture revived the struggling banner called Dharma Productions.
Today Dharma Productions is arguably one of the richest production houses in India under shrewd leadership of Karan Johar who sucessfully built on the legacy of his father late Mr. Yash Johar.
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While KJo was going through the lessons of life and mysterious ways of helping hand of nature, there was other person whom his father lent money to fulfill her dream of starting a TV content company.
Let us bask ourselves in the struggle of this person who started her journey as a TV content producer at quite young age.
“Female Power"
Her first attempt at TVserials were pooh poohed by Doordarshan and other TV channels which rejected her six pliots pilots.
She was sad but determined to find her place in the Sun.
She worked hard and tasted her first success with her first TV serial Hum Paanch.
She was trying to burst into a male bastion of production houses.
Then serial from her banner Balaji Telefilms made a serial which caught fancy of gossip-hungry and in search of masala seeking humans in Indian sub continent.
Kabhi Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi tasted unheard of success in TV serial history.
Ekta Kapoor never looked back and kep upping her game by learning almost every trick in film and TV serial production business.
She became female Mogul of entertainment in TV industry.
She ventured into movie production business and started producing eclectic movies with economical actors.
She knew how to keep privation cost under control by choosing less expensive actors who could give bulk dates and thus reduce tine between the conception of a film and it's release. She chose to maje her production house profitable by having iron grip over each silo of film production.
This razor sharp approach helped her make Balaji TeleFilms Ltd a film production house to watch out for.
She is so in tune with changing moods of audiences that to cater to Audience which hangs on digital platforms she has started Alt Balaji to dish out digital programming.
“Moonlight took this banner out of Dark Woods”
This movie production house which had delivered massive hits in the past saw it's networth almost wiped out after a string of duds produced under this banner.
This renowned director went on to produce and direct his next movie with the costliest female star. By the time the movie was ready for release, this producer director was nervous as hell and kept on writing in a notebook “O God Help Me" again and again. (Source Khullam Khulla by Rishi Kapoor).
As per his own admission that movie was a suicidal attempt. But luckily for him this Sri Devi, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna starrer turned out to be moonlight in utter dark clouds.
Chandani revived the fortunes of Yash Raj Films, film production house which is amongst one of the richest production houses in Bollywood.
“A film Banner where Jai Mata Di is default mantra"
This simple at heart person started hus production house after revolutionising the hindi music industry. He street smart approach saw him creating the biggest song bank for his company.
He innovated the idea of making films revolving around film songs from his Hindi Songs bank. All of such movies spun around songs were duds but still he kept his film production house adopt till the time he was shot dead.
After his death, his able son took the film production houses established by his father to greater heights.
Bhushan Kumar built on the empire set up by his late father Gulshan Kumar and made their production banner T Series Films one of the richest banners in Bollywood.
Putting his hard earned money into more productive use this super star decided to launch a production house in partnership with his wife.
Sharukh Khan and Gauri Khan owned production house extracted sweetness of richness from red chillies.
Red Chillies Entertainment is one of the most successful and richest production houses of Bollywood.
Hope you are richer with this information.
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MM.
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