Ultra Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., earlier known as Ultra Distributors, is an Indian Film production company established in the year 1982. It started out in Home Video distribution and gradually forayed into film production and theatrical distribution. It is also engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including post production services and film distribution. Ultra has a library of over 1500 titles of award-winning and blockbuster feature films, TV dramas, animation, music and digital content. The company is into post production services such as scanning, restoration, colorization, 2D to stereoscopic 3D conversion and merchandising.

Film Production

It produced the films Yash released in 1996 and ''Jalpari'', released in 2012.

Restoration

The company has restored and digitized classic Hindi movie ''

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'', which was directed by

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. As per the report, the original camera negative had come to them from the archives completely melted, with parts damaged or lost. After several clean-ups, they managed to retrieve the actual content from the original camera negative. 45 restoration experts worked for almost 4 months over 2 lakh frames (200,000). The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 35 mm optical soundtrack. The company has submitted it for the

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of 2015, where it was released in the Restored Classic section of the festival. Apart from ''Pyaasa'', the company has also restored Raj Kapoor's '' Chori Chori'',

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's '' Half Ticket'' and Shammi Kapoor's ''Dil Tera Deewana''.

Subsidiaries

Apart from entertainment business company has also made a strong presence in Soft Toys market in India. Ultra Toys & Gifts Pvt Ltd is a part of the Ultra Media and Entertainment Group, which has manufacturing units at Mumbai & Noida. This company is a licensing partner of British company Smiley World in India.

References

External links

www.ultraindia.com
Film distributors of India Hindi cinema Film production companies based in Mumbai Home video distributors {{film-company-stub