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Tiger Baby Films
IndustryEntertainment
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Key people
Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti
ProductsFilms
ServicesFilm Production

Tiger Baby Films is an Indian film production company owned by film directors Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti.[1][2] The company was founded in October 2015.[3]

Debut film

Tiger Baby Films made its debut production with the musical-drama Gully Boy.[4]The movie premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2019. Released on 15 February 2019, it is directed by Zoya Akhtar.[5]

Gully Boy is co-produced by Tiger Baby Films, and Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment Productions.

The movie won the Best Feature Film Award at Asian Academy Creative Award.[6]

Gully Boy was selected as India’s official entry for the 92nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.[7] However, the movie didn’t make it to the final shortlist of 10 International Feature Films announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[8]

Web series

Tiger Baby Films premiered its first Netflix film, Lust Stories, on 15 June 2018. The Indian anthology film consisted of four short film segments directed by Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar. Lust Stories was nominated for International Emmy Award 2019 for Best TV Movie or Miniseries.[9]

The production house released its next web series, Made in Heaven, on Amazon Prime Video India on 8 March 2019. The web series starred Arjun Mathur and Sobhita Dhulipulia as the protagonists – Karan and Tara, who run a wedding planning agency by the titular name Made in Heaven.[10]

The web series is co-produced by Tiger Baby Films and Excel Entertainment. It is created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, and the duo has written the screenplay along with scriptwriter and director Alankrita Shrivastava. It is directed by Zoya Akhtar, Nitya Mehra, Alankrita Shrivastava, and Prashant Nair.[citation needed]

Upcoming projects

After releasing the first season of Made in Heaven, the production house began working on the second season of MIH in April 2019 for Amazon Prime Video.[11] Tiger Baby Films is also co-producing Ghost Stories, a sequel to Lust Stories, with Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP Pictures.[12] The four short films' anthology is directed by Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar.[13] The shooting for Akhtar’s segment began in August 2019.[14]

Ghost Stories is slated for a 1 January 2020 release on Netflix.[15]

References

  1. ^ Hungama, Bollywood (12 December 2019). "Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti's Tiger Baby Films gets a unique welcome on Instagram by top celebrities : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama". Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  2. ^ "No Luck By Chance- Business News". www.businesstoday.in. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  3. ^ "TIGER BABY FILMS LLP - Company, directors and contact details | Zauba Corp". www.zaubacorp.com. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Why Zoya Akhtar turned producer". The Asian Age. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  5. ^ "10 Inspiring Women From The Entertainment Industry Who Made Heads Turn In 2019!". indiatimes.com. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  6. ^ "'Gully Boy' wins best feature film award at Asian Academy Creative award". Deccan Chronicle. 7 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  7. ^ "'Gully Boy': Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt starrer is out of the Oscars 2020 race, read more - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  8. ^ "'Gully Boy' out of Oscar Race as 10 Short-Listed Films Announced". The Quint. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Emmys 2019: Sacred Games, Lust Stories And Radhika Apte Get Nominations. Details Here". NDTV.com. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Zoya Akhtar on Made in Heaven: Have always been fascinated with weddings". The Indian Express. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  11. ^ "Zoya Akhtar announces Made in Heaven Season 2: Back to work". India Today. Ist. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Janhvi Kapoor and Vijay Varma to star in Zoya Akhtar's short film 'Ghost Stories'". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Ghost Stories: Janhvi Kapoor and Gully Boy actor Vijay Varma in Zoya Akhtar's short film". India Today. Ist. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  14. ^ ANI (17 August 2019). "Zoya Akhtar announces shooting of 'Ghost Stories'". Business Standard India. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  15. ^ "Netflix's Ghost Stories to Premier on January 1, 2020". News18. Retrieved 20 December 2019.