Phantom Films
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| Private | |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founders | Anurag Kashyap Vikramaditya Motwane Vikas Bahl Madhu Mantena |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Products | Films |
| Services | Film production Film distribution |
| Website | Phantom Films |
Phantom Films is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Anurag Kashyap, director Vikramaditya Motwane, producer Madhu Mantena and the former head of UTV Spotboy Vikas Bahl. It was founded in 2011 by all three of them, and is cited as the "director's company". In March 2015, Reliance Entertainment picked up 50% stake in the company.
The company’s first production was the period romance Lootera (2013), directed by Motwane and starring Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha. the film was co-prduced by Balaji Motion Pictures. Next year, the company co-produced the romantic-comedy Hasee Toh Phasee and Queen, starring Kangana Ranaut. The film was a critical and commercial success, it also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. It was followed by the thriller's Ugly and NH10 (2015). The latter marked the production debut of Anushka Sharma. Hunterrr (2015), Bombay Velvet (2015) and Masaan (2015) were the company's next releases.
Establishment
Phantom Films was founded in 2011 by Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl and Madhu Mantena, and is cited as the "director's company".[1] The Idea to start their own production house came in mind of because of "there failure in convincing every time to someone to believe in the kind of cinema they make".[2] In March 2015, Reliance Entertainment picked up 50% stake in the company.[3]
Films
The companies first film was the period romance Lootera (2013), starring Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha. Based O. Henry's short story, The Last Leaf, the film was critically acclaimed.[4]
Phantom film's then went on to collaborate with Karan Johar's Dharma Productions to produce the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee (2014). The film starring Parineeti Chopra and Sidharth Malhotra was directed by the debutant Vinil Mathew.[5] It was followed by Vikas Bahl-directed comedy drama Queen, starring Kangana Ranaut. The film was a critical and commercial success, it also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.[6][7][8] Ugly (2014), a drama thriller was the next production venture of Phantom.[9]
In 2015, the company produced Anushka Sharma's production debut film NH10, and the sex comedy Hunterrr. Both films proved to be a success.[10][11] Bombay Velvet, a period film set in Bombay in the 1960s, based on Princeton University Historian Gyan Prakash's book Mumbai Fables, was its next release. It stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar. The film was a major box-office failure.[12][13] Masaan, was phantom's fourth release of the year. The film won the FIPRESCI Award and the Promising Future award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[14] The string of box-office failures for Phantom Films continued with Shaandaar (2015), starring Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor.[15][16]
In February 2016, Phantom Films announced that they will co-produce three Gujarati films with Cineman Productions, a Gujarat based film production company co-founded by Abhishek Jain.[17]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Director | Cast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Lootera | Vikramaditya Motwane | Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha |
| 2014 | Hasee Toh Phasee | Vinil Mathew | Parineeti Chopra, Sidharth Malhotra |
| 2014 | Queen | Vikas Bahl | Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon |
| 2014 | Ugly | Anurag Kashyap | Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Girish Kulkarni, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh, Surveen Chawla |
| 2015 | NH10 | Navdeep Singh | Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam |
| 2015 | Hunterrr | Harshavardhan Kulkarni | Gulshan Devaiah, Radhika Apte |
| 2015 | Bombay Velvet | Anurag Kashyap | Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar |
| 2015 | Masaan | Neeraj Ghaywan | Richa Chadda, Sanjay Mishra, Shweta Tripathi |
| 2015 | Shaandaar | Vikas Bahl | Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Pankaj Kapur |
| 2016 | Udta Punjab | Abhishek Chaubey | Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh |
| 2016 | Ghoomketu | Pushpendra Misra | Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadda, Anurag Kashyap, Ila Arun, Raghubir Yadav, Ragini Khanna, Swanand Kirkire |
| 2016 | Raman Raghav 2.0 | Anurag Kashyap | Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal |
- Films Distributed
| Year | Film | Language | Director | Cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Nannaku Prematho | Telugu | Sukumar | Jr. Ntr, Jagapathi Babu, Rakul Preet Singh |
Awards
- 62nd National Film Awards: Best Feature Film in Hindi: Queen[18]
- 63rd National Film Awards: Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director: Masaan
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