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Makuta VFX
Makuta is an Indian visual effects and animation company based in Santa Clara, CA with branches in Hyderabad, India and Universal City, CA. The company received the National Film Awards in 2010 and 2012 for "Magadheera" and "Eega" respectively. Founded by Pete Draper, Adel Adili and R.C. Kamalakannan in 2010 off the success of their collaboration on SS Rajamouli's Magadheera, the trio brought in private investment and technical advisors from the entertainment and technology industries to their board of directors, such as Dasaradha Gude, Raja Koduri and SS Rajamouli along with long-time collaborator A.V. Dorababu as studio lead. As per agreement, Rajamouli exited from the board of directors after two calendar years during the production of Eega and Kamalakannan personally exited in 2012. Draper, Adili and Dorababu have been spearheading the studio's operations since. It is a fully-fledged visual effects facility covering a full gamut of requirements from active on-set visual eff ...
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Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ...
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Visual Effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action footage or CGI elements to create realistic imagery is called VFX. VFX involves the integration of live-action footage (which may include in-camera special effects) and generated-imagery (digital or optics, animals or creatures) which look realistic, but would be dangerous, expensive, impractical, time-consuming or impossible to capture on film. Visual effects using computer-generated imagery (CGI) have more recently become accessible to the independent filmmaker with the introduction of affordable and relatively easy-to-use animation and compositing software. History Early developments In 1857, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first "special effects" image by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single image, making a mon ...
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Red Giant Movies
Red Giant Movies is an Indian film production and distribution company headed by actor, politician and businessman Udhayanidhi Stalin. History The proposed venture of the studio was meant to be a collaboration between director Thamizhvaanan and actor Vishal, but the film never took off. Subsequently, the first production of Red Giant Movies was the action comedy ''Kuruvi'' (2008) starring Vijay, following which the studio financed K. S. Ravikumar's '' Aadhavan'' (2009) starring Suriya. The studio later worked on big budget films including the Kamal Haasan-starrer ''Manmadan Ambu'' (2010) and AR Murugadoss's ''7aum Arivu'' (2011). The studio received acclaim in 2010, when all four of its distribution projects, ''Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa'', ''Madrasapattinam'', ''Boss Engira Bhaskaran'' and ''Mynaa ''Mynaa'' is a 2010 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language romantic drama film directed and written by Prabu Solomon. Jointly distributed by Udhayanidhi Stalin and Kalpathi S. ...
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7aum Arivu
''7aum Arivu'' (; ) is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language science fiction martial arts film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss, featuring Suriya, Johnny Trí Nguyễn and Shruti Haasan. In the film, a medical student enlists the help of a circus artist, who is a descendant of Bodhidharma, to revive the legend's skills and knowledge, while a Chinese man with hypnotic powers starts a government-planned biological war against India. The film, produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin began production in May 2010 and was released on 25 October 2011 in Chennai and a day later, on Diwali, worldwide. The visual effects for the film were done by US based Legacy Effects, making this their second Indian film after '' Enthiran''. It was also dubbed into Telugu as ''7th Sense'' which released simultaneously along with the Tamil original. The film was also dubbed in Hindi as ''Chennai v/s China'' in 2014 as well as in Malayalam with the original title. The film was also one out of several films sel ...
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Sun Pictures
Sun Pictures is an Indian film distribution and production studio based in Chennai, India. It is a unit of Sun TV Network a part of the Sun Group. Founded in 2000, it started producing the TV film ''Siragugal ''Siragugal'' () is an Indian Tamil-language drama film written by Raadhika, produced by Kalanithi Maran, and co-directed by Manobala and Raadhika. Set in London, the film stars Raadhika and Vikram, while Devan plays a supporting role. It was ...'' and later it started producing and distributing Tamil-language films. Filmography References External links * Film distributors of India Film production companies of India Film production companies based in Chennai Indian film studios Indian companies established in 2008 Sun Group 2000 establishments in Tamil Nadu {{film-company-stub ...
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Enthiran
''Enthiran'' () is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film written and directed by S. Shankar. It is the first instalment in the ''Enthiran'' franchise. The film stars Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with Danny Denzongpa, Santhanam and Karunas in supporting roles. The soundtrack album and background score were composed by A. R. Rahman while the dialogues, cinematography, editing and art direction were handled by Madhan Karky, R. Rathnavelu, Anthony and Sabu Cyril respectively. The story revolves around the struggle of a scientist K. Vaseegaran to control his android humanoid robot named Chitti, after Chitti's software is upgraded to give it the ability to comprehend and exhibit human emotions. The project backfires when Chitti falls in love with Vaseegaran's girlfriend, Sana, and is manipulated by Bohra, a rival scientist, into becoming homicidal. After being stalled in the development phase for nearly a decade, the film's principal photography ...
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Arka Media Works
Arka Media Works is an Indian film production and trans-media company based out of Hyderabad, known for their works in Television and Telugu cinema. Founded in 2001 by Shobu Yarlagadda, and Prasad Devineni Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni are an Indian film producer duo. They founded Arka Media Works, a film production company known for its works in Telugu cinema. Their notable productions include '' Vedam'' (2010), ''Maryada Ramanna'' (2010), .... Film production Television production Awards References {{Baahubali Film production companies based in Hyderabad, India Mass media companies established in 2001 Indian film studios Producers who won the Best Feature Film National Film Award Indian companies established in 2001 2001 establishments in Andhra Pradesh ...
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Maryada Ramanna
''Maryada Ramanna'' is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language action comedy drama film co-written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli. The film is produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni under Arka Media Works. The film stars Sunil, Saloni and Nagineedu. It has music composed by M. M. Keeravani with cinematography and editing performed by Ram Prasad and Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao respectively. When Rajamouli watched Buster Keaton's 1923 silent comedy film ''Our Hospitality'', he liked it immensely and wanted to re-tell the same story in his own way. He tried to contact the original creators but found out that the original writers of the film were long dead and that the film's copyright had expired as it had been over 75 years since the film's release. S. S. Kanchi and Rajamouli had adapted that story with a Rayalaseema backdrop focusing on the factional violence and hospitality that co-existed in the region. Released on 23 July 2010, the film opened to favourable reviews by c ...
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Geetha Arts
Geetha Arts is an Indian film production and distribution company known for its works in Telugu cinema. It is established in 1972 by Allu Aravind. The company is based out of Hyderabad. It has produced around 60 films majority of them in Telugu in addition to a few films in Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada languages. Geetha Arts marked its beginning through the 1974 Teugu film ''Bantrothu Bharya''. The company has made movies featuring actors such as Chiranjeevi, Rajinikanth, Aamir Khan, Ravichandran, Pawan Kalyan, Allu Arjun, Ganesh, Nani, Ram Charan, Nikhil Siddharth and Vijay Deverakonda. It has also expanded its presence into film distribution, exhibition and digital content. History Geetha Arts is an Indian film production and distribution company established in 1972 by Allu Aravind, the son of veteran Telugu comedian Allu Ramalingaiah. The company was named after the Hindu philosophical text ''Bhagavad Geeta'' which inspired Allu Aravind. It is formerly known as Geetha A ...
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Ghajini (2008 Film)
''Ghajini'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss, jointly produced by Allu Aravind, Tagore Madhu and Madhu Mantena. A remake of Murugadoss's own 2005 Tamil film of the same name which itself is inspired by the 2000 film '' Memento'', the film stars Asin Thottumkal (who reprising her role from original, in her Hindi film debut) and Aamir Khan with Jiah Khan and Pradeep Rawat in the pivotal roles. The score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman, while Aamir co-wrote an altered climax. Murugadoss, had written half of the film's story when he watched ''Memento'', and claimed to merely use the character due to his short-term memory loss condition. In the film, a businessman suffering from anterograde amnesia sets out to avenge his girlfriend with the aid of photographs from a Polaroid Instant camera and permanent tattoos on his body. Released theatrically on 25 December 2008, ''Ghajini'' became the highest-grossing In ...
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RRR (film)
''RRR'' is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad. It was produced by D. V. V. Danayya of DVV Entertainment. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Samuthirakani, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, and Olivia Morris. It centers around two real-life Indian revolutionaries, Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Rama Rao), their fictional friendship and their fight against the British Raj. Set in the 1920s, the plot explores the undocumented period in their lives when both the revolutionaries chose to go into obscurity before they began the fight for their country. Rajamouli came across stories about the lives of Rama Raju and Bheem and connected the coincidences between them, imagining what would have happened had they met, and been friends. The film was formally announced in March 2018. Principal photogr ...
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Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
''Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy'' is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language historical action film directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Ram Charan under the Konidela Production Company banner. Surender Reddy scripted the film based on an original story given by Paruchuri brothers. A work of fiction, the film is inspired by the life of Indian independence activist Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy from the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. The film stars Chiranjeevi as the title character with Nayanthara, Tamannaah, Sudeep, Jagapathi Babu, and Vijay Sethupathi (in his Telugu film debut) in supporting roles. Amitabh Bachchan and Anushka Shetty make guest appearances, marking the former's Telugu debut. Pawan Kalyan, Kamal Haasan, and Mohanlal gave narration in the film. The film tells the story of Narasimha Reddy in his fight against the rule of the British East India Company. It was officially launched on 22 August 2017, coinciding with Chiranjeevi's birthday, whereas principal photog ...
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