Pen India Limited
# Pen India Limited

Pen Studios (formerly Pen India Limited) is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Dr. Jayantilal Gada on 31 March 1987. Based in Mumbai, it mainly produces and distributes Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films.

In 1992, the business was restructured under the name Popular Entertainment Network, and began to acquire video rights for movies to be distributed over various media such as video cassettes, satellites, terrestrial platforms, etc. The company subsequently forayed into theatrical and distribution rights of movies.

In the past few years, Pen Studios has produced films such as Kahaani and Shivaay, with many A-listers, that have been a huge success at the box office. The company, now, is also expanding by focusing on producing good regional content.

Gearing up for the next major growth spurt in the media and entertainment industry, Pen is setting up its own digital media platforms, and will offer unique services at reasonable prices for Indian consumers.

Pen India Limited launched a new Television Channel named WOW. WOW's content library is full of various Bollywood music and old classic Bollywood movies to new Hindi, Gujarati, Hindi dubbed (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam) films, and TV series such as Mahabharat.

## Initial years

Dr. Jayantilal Gada started as a small-time entrepreneur with a video library called Popular Video Cassette Co in 1984. Later, he went into trading of video rights and distribution of VHS tapes across India by establishing Asia's biggest video shop, "Popular Video", at Lamington Road, Mumbai.

## Brief history

Restructured and formed Popular Entertainment Network Limited (with brand name 'PEN') in 1992 and started dealing in copyrights of Hindi feature films viz. video, satellite and Doordarshan (DD).

PEN was the largest content provider of Hindi feature films to channels. In 1995, PEN created another landmark by telecasting Sholay 20 years after its theatrical release on Doordarshan and creating a record with the highest ever Television viewing ratings (76 TRPs) with about 7.5 crore revenues.

In 1996, Sony TV telecast Sholay to celebrate its first anniversary and gained the number-one position among satellite channels, beating Zee TV for the first time.

Daughter Bhavita Jayantilal Gada also joined PEN in 2006 and started an animation division with mega projects like Mahabharat.

Nephew Kushal Kantilal Gada joined the group in 2007 after graduating in management studies.

In 2009, son Dhaval Gada, after completing his course at Whistling Woods International Institute, joined PEN to streamline production activities.

## Film history

In 2012, PEN's maiden production Kahaani with Sujoy Ghosh proves successful at the box office.

In 2013, PEN released three projects: Issaq, released all over India in 900 theatres. Singh Saab the Great on 1970 screens in India. Mahabharat 3D animation feature film also released in 300 theatres.

In 2014, PEN completed and finally released Sholay 3D in 780 theatres in India. PEN also co-produces and distributes Nagesh Kukunoor's Art House film Lakshmii on 82 screens, Entertainment in 3,200 screens worldwide. PEN also distributed and released Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami on 490 screens and Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya on 890 screens.

PEN has been associated in the past with films such as Sauda (1995), Kohram (1999), Lal Baadshah (1999), Kitne Door Kitne Paas (2002), Shararat (2002), and Yeh Mera India (2009) as rights=holders and not as a production.

In 2023, Midnight New Zealand now on Airtel - 330 Tata Play - 565 Dish TV - 680

## TV Channels

* BFlix Movies (Movies)
* I Love (Music)
* BFlix TV (GEC)
* BFlix Cinema (Movies)
* Midnight New Zealand (News)

## Filmography

### Production

The following is a list of notable films in which Jayantilal Gada's Pen India Ltd has been involved.

| Year | Film | Cast |
| - | - | - |
| 2008 | Yeh Mera India | Anupam Kher, Purab Kohli |
| 2010 | Kaalo | Swini Khara |
| 2011 | Chatur Singh Two Star | Sanjay Dutt, Ameesha Patel |
| 2012 | Kahaani | Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui |
| 2013 | Issaq | Prateik Babbar, Amyra Dastur, Ravi Kishan |
| 2013 | Mahabharat | Ajay Devgan, Anil Kapoor |
| 2013 | Singh Saab The Great | Sunny Deol, Urvashi Rautela, Prakash Raj |
| 2014 | Lakshmi | Nagesh Kukunoor, Monali Thakur |
| 2014 | Sholay 3D | Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan |
| 2014 | Rang Rasiya | Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen |
| 2014 | Entertainment | Akshay Kumar, Tamannaah |
| 2014 | Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami | Anupam Kher, Neha Dhupia |
| 2015 | P Se PM Tak | Meenakshi Dixit |
| 2015 | Singh Is Bliing | Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta |
| 2016 | Rajini Murugan | Sivakarthikeyan, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran, Soori, Samuthirakani |
| 2016 | Mastizaade | Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor |
| 2016 | Do Lafzon Ki Kahani | Randeep Hooda, Kajal Aggarwal |
| 2016 | Wah Taj | Shreyas Talpade, Manjari Phadnis |
| 2016 | Shivaay | Ajay Devgn, Sayyeshaa Saigal |
| 2016 | Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh | Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal |
| 2016 | Nagarahavu | Vishnuvardhan |
| 2017 | Commando 2: The Black Money Trail | Vidyut Jamwal, Adah Sharma Esha Gupta |
| 2017 | Machine | Mustafa Burmawala, Kiara Advani, Ronit Roy |
| 2017 | Haseena Parkar | Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang |
| 2018 | Aiyaary | Siddharth Malhotra, Manoj Bajpai, Rakul Preet Singh |
| 2018 | GujjuBhai - Most Wanted | Siddharth Randeria, Jimit Trivedi |
| 2018 | Mercury | Prabhu Deva |
| 2018 | Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se | Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Kriti Kharbanda |
| 2018 | Helicopter Eela | Kajol, Riddhi Sen, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Neha Dhupia |
| 2018 | Namaste England | Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra |
| 2018 | Sandakozhi 2 | Vishal, Rajkiran, Keerthy Suresh, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar |
| 2019 | The Accidental Prime Minister | Anupam Kher, Akshaye Khanna |
| 2019 | Total Dhamaal | Ajay Devgn, Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey |
| 2019 | Mere Pyare Prime Minister | Anjali Patil, Om Kanojiya, Makrand Deshpande, Rasika Agashe |
| 2019 | Yeh Saali Aashiqui | Vardhan Puri, Shivaleeka Oberoi |
| 2020 | Gul Makai | Reem Shaikh, Atul Kulkarni, Divya Dutta, Mukesh Rishi, Pankaj Tripathi |
| 2021 | The Power | Vidyut Jammwal, Shruti Haasan |
| 2021 | Kya Meri Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai? | Jassie Gill, Surbhi Jyoti |
| 2021 | Bhavai | Pratik Gandhi, Aindrita Ray |
| 2022 | Khiladi | Ravi Teja, Arjun Sarja, Unni Mukundan, Meenakshi Chaudhary, Dimple Hayathi |
| 2022 | Gangubai Kathiawadi | Alia Bhatt |
| 2022 | Attack | John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez, Rakul Preet Singh |
| 2022 | Chup: Revenge of the Artist | Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Pooja Bhatt |
| 2023 | Pathu Thala | Silambarasan, Gautham Karthik |
| 2023 | Chatrapathi | Bellamkonda Sreenivas, Nushrratt Bharuccha |

### Distribution

* Rajini Murugan (2016)
* Si3 (2017)
* Zero (2018)
* Badla (2019)
* Family Of Thakurganj (2019)
* Malaal (2019)
* Judgementall Hai Kya (2019)
* Jabariya Jodi (2019)
* Dream Girl (2019)
* Ghost (2019)
* Satellite Shankar (2019)
* Marjaavaan (2019)
* Jawaani Jaaneman (2020)
* Love Aaj Kal (2020)
* Kaamyaab (2020)
* Angrezi Medium (2020)
* Coolie No. 1 (2020)
* Bell Bottom (2021)
* Chehre (2021)
* RRR (Hindi version) (2022)
* Jersey (2022)
* Acharya (Hindi version) (2022)
* Vikram (Hindi Version) (2022)
* Ponniyin Selvan: I (Hindi version) (2022)
* Dobaaraa (2022)
* Chup: Revenge of The Artist (2022)
* Yodha (2022 film) (2022)
* Sita Ramam (Hindi version) (2022)
* Gumraah (2023)
* Ponniyin Selvan: II (Hindi version) (2023)
* Sam Manekshaw (2023)
* Hanu Man (Hindi version) (2024)
* Project K (Hindi Version) (2024)
