PVR Inox Pictures
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | Gurgaon, India |
Products | Films |
Website | www |
PVR Inox Pictures (formerly PVR Pictures) is the film distribution arm of PVR INOX, which also owns PVR Cinemas and INOX Leisure, two of the largest multiplex companies in India. PVR Pictures was renamed as PVR INOX Pictures post the completion of the merger between PVR and INOX Leisure, and the announcement was made at the Cannes Film Festival.[1]
History
The company has its origin is Priya Cinema in Vasant Vihar in South Delhi, which was bought by current owner 's father in 1978, who also owned a trucking business, Amritsar Transport Co. In 1988, Bijli took over the running of the cinema hall, which was revamped in 1990, and its success led to the founding PVR Cinemas.[2][3]
PVR Pictures film production début came in 2007 with Taare Zameen Par and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na.[4] It has distributed over 200 Hollywood films, including The Aviator, Mission: Impossible III, Kill Bill, The Hurt Locker, The Twilight Saga and Chicago; over 100 Bollywood films, including blockbusters such as ‘Ghajini’, ‘Golmaal Returns’, ‘All The Best’, ‘Don', ‘Sarkar Raj’, ‘Omkara’ and nearly 25 regional films since its inception.[citation needed] In October 2012 the company acquired the Indian distribution rights for the film adaption of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children.[5] In July 2023, they released the highly anticipated film 'Past Lives (film)' directed by debutant Celine Song in India, after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Its CEO is Kamal Gianchandani,[4] and its current promoters are Ajay Bijli and Sanjeev Kumar Bijli. Ajay Bijli is the Managing Director of PVR INOX Ltd while Sanjeev Kumar Bijli is the Executive Director of PVR INOX Ltd.
Recently, the group had a tie-up with HP to open Asia’s first Virtual Reality (VR) Lounge at PVR ECX, Mall of India, Noida.
Following a merger between PVR and INOX Leisure in 2023, PVR Pictures was rebranded to PVR Inox Pictures. The company will continue acquiring international films, albeit on a larger scale, for the Indian market.[6][7]
Films produced
Year | Film | Director | Notes |
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2007 | Taare Zameen Par | Aamir Khan | Co-produced with Aamir Khan Productions |
2008 | Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na | Abbas Tyrewala | Co-produced with Aamir Khan Productions |
Contract | Ram Gopal Varma | Co-produced with Ace Movie Company | |
2009 | Tum Mile | Kunal Deshmukh | Co-produced with Vishesh Films |
2010 | Prem Kaa Game | Ashok Kheny | Co-produced with A K K Entertainment |
Hide & Seek | Shawn Arranha | ||
My Friend Ganesha 3 | Rajiv S. Ruia | ||
Lamhaa | Rahul Dholakia | Co-produced with G. S. Entertainment Pvt. Ltd | |
Aisha | Rajshree Ojha | Co-produced with Anil Kapoor Films Company and MAD Entertainment Ltd. | |
Action Replayy | Vipul Amrutlal Shah | Co-produced with Hari Om Entertainment and Sunshine Pictures | |
2011 | Teen Thay Bhai | Mrighdeep Lamba | Co-produced with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures |
2012 | Shanghai | Dibakar Banerjee | Co-produced with Dibakar Banerjee Productions |
2017 | Poorna: Courage Has No Limit | Rahul Bose | Co-produced with Rahul Bose Productions |
Director's Rare
The Following films were released under PVR Director's Rare Banner.
Year | Film | Director | Language | Studio | Notes |
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2012 | Kshay | Karan Gour | Hindi | Empatheia Films | |
Anhe Ghore Da Daan | Gurvinder Singh | Punjabi | National Film Development Corporation of India | ||
Hansa | Manav Kaul | Hindi | Aranya Films | [8] | |
2013 | Lessons in Forgetting | Unni Vijayan | English | Arowana Studios | |
Love in Bombay | Joy Mukherjee | Hindi | The film was originally made in 1971 | ||
The Adventures of Sinbad | Shinjan Neogi and Abhishek Panchal | Hindi | Lodi Films Pvt. Ltd. | Animated Film | |
Mere Haule Dost | Nitin Raghunath | Hindi | Fingerchop Films | ||
Baandhon | Jahnu Barua | Assamese | ASFFDC | Originally released in 2012 in the state of Assam | |
The Lunchbox | Ritesh Batra | Hindi | DAR Motion Pictures, UTV Motion Pictures, Dharma Productions, Sikhya Entertainment, NFDC, ROH Films, ASAP Films, Cine Mosaic | Limited engagement. | |
2014 | Liar's Dice | Geetu Mohandas | Hindi | JAR Pictures | |
Station | Saad Khan | Hindi | Sumit Ghosh Media | ||
Raakh | Aditya Bhattacharya | Hindi | Emotion Picture Company, Saritha Films, Second Image Enterprise | Originally released in 1989 | |
The World Before Her | Nisha Pahuja | English | KinoSmith, Ro*co Films | Canadian Documentary Film originally released in 2012 | |
Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka | Prasanna Vithanage | Sinhala, Tamil | Sri Lankan film originally released in 2012 | ||
The Nut Job | Peter Lepeniotis | English | Red Rover International, ToonBox Entertainment, Gulfstream Pictures | Animated film co-produced by production companies of Canada, US and South Korea | |
Naya Pata | Pawan K Shrivastava | Hindi | Vaartul Films, Nayaab Vision Entertainmen | produced through Crowd funding | |
Crossing Bridges | Sange Dorjee Thongdok | Sherdukpen | First feature film in Sherdukpen Language | ||
Sulemani Keeda | Amit V Masurkar | Hindi | Tulsea Pictures, Mantra/Runaway Entertainment | ||
2015 | Surkhaab | Sanjay Talreja | Hindi | Golden Gate Creations | Indo-Canadian co-production |
The Path of Zarathustra | Oorvazi Irani | English | SBI Impresario Pvt. Ltd. | ||
2017 | Newton | Amit V Masurkar | Hindi | Drishyam Films |
Films distributed
Hindi
- Ganapath (2023)
- Mission Raniganj (2023)
- Akelli (2023)
- Bholaa (2023)
- Vikram Vedha (2022)
- Velle (2021)
- 83 (2021)
- Sooryavanshi (2021)
- Mamangam (2019)
- Saand Ki Aankh (2019)
- Super 30 (2019)
- FryDay (2018)
- Nanu Ki Jaanu (2018)
- Chauranga (2016)
- Gulabi (2014)
- Mahabharat (2013)
- Shorts (2013)
- Bandook (2013)
- Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan (2012)
- Men Will Be Men (2011)
- Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010)
- Action Replayy (2010)
- Soul of Sand (2010)
- Antardwand (2010)
- Lamhaa (2010)
- Rann (2010)
- Tum Mile (2009)
- All the Best: Fun Begins (2009)
- Blue (2009)
- Aloo Chaat (2009)
- Ghajini (2008)
- Golmaal Returns (2008)
- Phoonk (2008)
- Contract (2008)
- Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
- Via Darjeeling (2008)
- Mere Baap Pehle Aap (2008)
- Sarkar Raj (2008)
- Shaurya: It Takes Courage to Make Right... Right (2008)
- Victoria No. 203: Diamonds Are Forever (2007)
- Bheja Fry (2007)
- Being Cyrus (2005)
Telugu
- Kushi (2023)
- Godfather (2022)
- A: Ad Infinitum (2021)
Tamil
- Don (2022)
Kannada
- Vikrant Rona (2022)
Bengali
- Byomkesh O Durgo Rahasya (2023)
- Bagha Jatin (2023 film) (2023)
Marathi
- Baipan Bhaari Deva (2023)
- Reti (2016)
Gujarati
- Gujjubhai the Great (2015)
International films in India
- 3 Days to Kill (with Tanweer Films)
- 9
- 12 Years a Slave
- 21 & Over
- 21 Bridges
- 45 Years
- 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
- The 355
- 3096 Days
- About My Father (with Lionsgate)
- About Ray
- The Accidental Husband
- Admission
- Adrift
- After
- Aftermath
- The Age of Adaline
- Agora
- All of Those Voices
- All is Lost
- All Roads Lead to Rome
- All the Money in the World
- The American
- American Hustle
- Amy
- Angel Has Fallen (with MVP Entertainment)
- Another Year
- Arbitrage
- Ash Is Purest White
- Astro Boy
- Atomic Blonde
- August: Osage County (with Tanweer Films)
- August Rush
- The Aviator
- Away We Go
- A Bad Moms Christmas
- Bad Moms
- Bad Santa
- The Ballad of Jack and Rose
- Balls of Fury
- Bandidas (with MVP Entertainment)
- Bandslam
- Basic Instinct 2
- The Battle of Shaker Heights
- The Beach Bum
- Beau Is Afraid
- Because I Said So (with WEG India)
- The Beekeeper
- Beginners
- Being Flynn
- Be Kind Rewind
- Bel Ami
- The Best Years
- The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales...
- Birthday Girl
- Biutiful
- Blackpink: The Movie
- Black Sea
- Blindness
- Blood and Bone
- Book Club
- The Box
- Brahms: The Boy II
- Breach
- Breaking News in Yuba County
- The Bricklayer (with Lionsgate)
- Brick Mansions
- Bring the Soul: The Movie
- Broken City
- Broken Embraces
- Broker (with Impact Films)
- Burn After Reading
- Butter
- The Butterfly Effect
- The Bye Bye Man
- The Call (with Tanweer Films)
- Captivity
- Carol
- Charlie Bartlett
- Chasing Amy
- Chicago
- The Childe (with MVP Entertainment)
- Chocolat (with Rossellini & Associates)
- The Cider House Rules
- Closed Circuit
- Cloud Atlas
- C'mon C'mon
- Code Name: The Cleaner
- Coldplay – Music of the Spheres: Live at River Plate
- Cold Pursuit
- The Collection
- The Commuter
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- Coriolanus (with Tanweer Films)
- The Conspirator
- The Contractor
- Countdown
- The Courier
- The Crow[9][10]
- Cymbeline
- Dallas Buyers Club (with PictureWorks)
- Dan in Real Life
- Danny Collins
- Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
- Death at a Funeral
- Demolition
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village
- Den of Thieves
- Destination Wedding
- Destroyer
- Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
- Devotion
- Diana (with Tanweer Films)
- Diego Maradona
- Dirty Grandpa
- The Divergent Series: Allegiant
- Dog (with MVP Entertainment)
- Don't Knock Twice
- Dragged Across Concrete
- Dragon Blade
- Dream Scenario
- Drive
- Duplex
- The Eagle
- Eastern Promises
- Edge of Darkness
- Ella Enchanted
- Ender's Game
- Equals
- Escape Plan
- The Eternal Daughter
- Everybody Wants Some!!
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (with Impact Films)
- The Expendables (with MVP Entertainment)
- The Expendables 2 (with MVP Entertainment)
- The Expendables 3 (with MVP Entertainment)
- Expend4bles (with MVP Entertainment)
- Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
- Eye in the Sky
- Fading Gigolo
- Fahrenheit 11/9
- Fair Game
- Falling
- The Farewell
- The Father
- Finding Neverland
- The First Slam Dunk
- Flashbacks of a Fool (with Superfine Films)
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Flypaper
- Force of Nature
- The Foreigner
- The Founder
- Four Assassins
- Foxcatcher
- Free Birds (with Tanweer Films)
- Full Frontal
- Furry Vengeance
- Fury
- Game 6
- The Gentlemen
- The Gift (with PictureWorks)
- Golda (with Lionsgate)
- Good Time
- A Good Woman
- The Greatest
- Greenberg
- The Green Knight
- Greenland
- The Grey
- Gringo
- The Gunman
- Gunpowder Milkshake
- Hannibal Rising
- The Happytime Murders
- Hardcore Henry
- The Hateful Eight
- Havoc
- Haywire (with Tanweer Films)
- Hellboy (with MVP Entertainment)
- Hellraiser: Deader
- Hellraiser: Hellseeker
- Hellraiser: Inferno
- Her
- Hereditary
- A Hero (with Impact Films)
- Higher Power
- Horns
- The Host
- Hostiles
- The Hunger Games
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (with Lionsgate)
- Hunter Killer (with MVP Entertainment)
- The Hunter's Prayer
- The Hunting Party
- The Hurt Locker (with MVP Entertainment)
- Hustlers
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- The Iceman
- The Ides of March
- The Idol
- I, Frankenstein (with PictureWorks)
- The Imitation Game
- The Impossible
- In Bruges
- The Informer
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- The Inspection
- The Iron Claw
- It Follows (with PictureWorks)
- Jackie Brown
- Jane Eyre
- Java Heat
- Jessabelle
- Jobs
- John Wick
- John Wick: Chapter 2
- John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
- John Wick: Chapter 4 (with Lionsgate)
- Judy
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0
- Kidnap
- Kill Bill: Volume 1
- Kill Bill: Volume 2
- Killing Them Softly
- The Kill Team
- Kill the Messenger
- Knowing
- Kursk
- Lady Macbeth
- The Last Full Measure
- Last Vegas
- Laws of Attraction
- The Ledge
- Lee Daniels' The Butler
- Legend
- The Legend of Hercules (with PictureWorks)
- Letters to Juliet
- Life of Crime
- Lion (with PictureWorks)
- Little Nicky
- Logan Lucky
- London Boulevard
- London Has Fallen (with MVP Entertainment, Panorama Studios and Niche Film Farm)
- Lone Survivor
- Looper
- The Lost City of Z (with Italia Film International)
- The Lost King
- Love, Rosie
- Love Happens
- Machine Gun Preacher
- Made in Italy
- Maggie's Plan
- Maggie
- Malavita
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
- Man on a Ledge (with Tanweer Films)
- The Man Who Knew Infinity
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
- Marlowe
- Married Life
- The Marsh King's Daughter
- The Mask
- The Master (with Tanweer Films)
- The Mauritanian
- Mechanic: Resurrection (with MVP Entertainment)
- Memory
- The Mercy
- Message from the King
- Mia and the White Lion
- Midway
- Mile 22
- Mimic 2
- Minamata
- Minari
- Misbehaviour
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- Miss Sloane
- Modesty Blaise
- The Moon (with MVP Entertainment)
- Moonfall (with MVP Entertainment)
- Moonlight
- Moonrise Kingdom
- The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
- Mother's Day
- Mothers' Instinct
- Mr. Holmes
- Mr. Jones
- Mr. Turner
- Mud
- My Boss's Daughter
- My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
- My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
- My Spy
- Next
- The Nice Guys
- Nightwatching
- Nine (with MVP Entertainment)
- Nine Lives
- Norma Jean & Marilyn Monroe
- Notre-Dame on Fire
- Now You See Me
- Now You See Me 2
- The Nut Job (with Tanweer Films)
- Oculus
- Official Secrets
- The Old Man & the Gun
- One Day
- One Piece Film: Red
- Only God Forgives (with Tanweer Films)
- Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
- The Operative
- Ordinary Love
- The Orphanage (with NDTV Lumiere)
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- Our Friend
- Out of the Furnace
- Paddington (with PictureWorks)
- Paddington 2
- Pain and Glory
- Palm Springs (with Impact Films)
- Pandemic
- The Paperboy
- Parallel Mothers (with Impact Films)
- Parasite (with Impact Films)
- Paris, je t'aime
- Past Lives
- Pawn Sacrifice (with MVP Entertainment)
- Pelé: Birth of a Legend
- Persepolis (with NDTV Lumiere)
- The Personal History of David Copperfield
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Piranha 3D (with MVP Entertainment)
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- Plane (with Lionsgate)
- Playing It Cool
- Point Break
- Polaroid
- Pompeii
- Pride + Prejudice + Zombies
- The Prince (with Italia Film International)
- Priscilla
- Prisoners
- A Private War
- The Program
- Promised Land
- The Prophecy II
- The Queen's Corgi
- The Queen Mary
- The Queen
- Rabbit Hole
- Rambo: Last Blood (with MVP Entertainment)
- Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out
- Rebel in the Rye
- The Reckoning
- Red
- Red 2
- Remember Me
- The Rental
- Replicas (with Italia Film International)
- Reprisal
- Reservation Road
- The Resident
- Retribution (with Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
- The Returned
- Riddick (with Italia Film International)
- Robinson Crusoe
- Rock the Kasbah
- Room
- The Rum Diary
- The Runaways
- Running Scared
- Rush Hour
- Rush Hour 2
- The Salesman
- Santa's Slay
- Saw X
- Scary Movie 3
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- The Secret: Dare to Dream
- The Secret Garden
- The Secrets We Keep
- The Sense of an Ending
- Serendipity
- Shanghai (with MVP Entertainment)
- A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (with PictureWorks)
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- Shepherds and Butchers
- She's Funny That Way
- Shin Ultraman
- Shut In (with PictureWorks)
- Siberia
- Sicario
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- A Single Man
- Silver Linings Playbook (with Tanweer Films)
- The Sisters Brothers
- Six Minutes to Midnight
- Skiptrace
- Sky Fighters
- Smugglers (with MVP Entertainment)
- Somewhere
- The Space Between Us
- Spencer (with Impact Films)
- Spread a.k.a. Toyboy (with Superfine Films)
- Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
- Stardust
- Step Up 3D
- Step Up Revolution
- Strangers
- The Strangers: Prey at Night
- Stuck in Love
- Submergence
- Suburbicon
- Suzume
- Tadpole
- Taking Woodstock
- Talk to Me (2007)
- Talk to Me (2022)
- Tarzan
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
- Teen Spirit
- That Awkward Moment
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie – Scarlet Bond
- Things to Do Before You're 30
- The Three Musketeers
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- TMNT
- To Catch a Killer
- To Leslie
- To Rome with Love
- Transamerica
- Transcendence (with MVP Entertainment)
- Triangle of Sadness (with Impact Films)
- Triple 9
- The True History of the Kelly Gang
- Trumbo (2007)
- Trumbo (2015)
- Truth
- Turistas
- Twilight
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon
- UglyDolls
- An Unfinished Life
- Unlocked
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (with MVP Entertainment)
- The Vanishing
- Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
- The Vigil (with PictureWorks)
- Voyagers
- Warrior
- The War with Grandpa
- The Water Diviner
- The Way Back
- We Are Your Friends
- The Wedding Planner
- The Whale (with Impact Films)
- What's Love Got to Do with It?
- What Just Happened
- While We're Young
- Whiplash (with PictureWorks)
- White Bird (with Lionsgate)
- The Wicker Man
- The Wife (with PictureWorks)
- The Wild Goose Lake
- The Wolf of Wall Street (with MVP Entertainment)
- The Woman in Black
- The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
- Wonder
- Yomeddine
- The Young Victoria
- Youth
- You Were Never Really Here
- Zambezia
- Zero Dark Thirty
- The Zookeeper's Wife
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