History Of Indian Theatre India has a richest tradition in theatre which is closely related to ancient rituals and seasonal festivities of the country Bharat Muni’s “Natya Shastra” was the earliest and most elaborate piece on dramaturgy written anywhere in the world. Natya Shastra describes ten classifications of drama ranging from one act to ten acts. …
Prithviraj Kapoorbegan Prithvi Theatresin 1944. It ran for 16 years, till 1960, when the company was forced to close down, due to Prithviraj Kapoor\’s ill health. After his death, a Trust called, “Shri Prithviraj Kapoor Memorial Trust & Research Foundation” was formed by his son, Shashi Kapoor in 1975, to continue his work, with the object of …
Rajshri Productions Pvt. Ltd., established in 1947, is primarily involved in producing Hindi films. Tarachand Barjatya was the founder of Rajshri and its most succesful director is Sooraj R. Barjatyawho directed blockbusters like Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Kounand Hum Saath Saath Hain Rajshri Productions made several successful and critically acclaimed movies between the 1960s and 1980s like Dosti, Uphaar, Geet Gaata …
YRF Studios was founded by Yash Chopra, a leading Director & Producer of the Indian entertainment industry. YRF Studios started out as a film-making company in 1970 and in last 5 decades grown from strength to strength and has to its credit few of the India’s highest grosser and highly acclaimed films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, …
Dharma Productions was established by Yash Johar in 1976. It produces high quality cinema that is appreciated by audiences across the world. Dostana, Agneepath, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kal ho na ho and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna are few of them After the death of Yash Joharin 2004 Dharma Productions was …
UTV Motion Pictures is a film unit of UTV Software Communications, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. UTV Group (UTV Software Communications, Bloomberg UTV, and UTV Motion Pictures), was founded in the year 1990 by Rohinton Soli \”Ronnie\” Screwvala. In February 2012 Disney took over UTV. In January 2014, Ronnie exited the media and entertainment sector and …
Red Chillies Entertainment is an Indian motion picture production and distribution company founded on 7 May 2002 by Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan. The company also has a 55% stake in the IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders. Red Chillies Entertainment has formed a full-fledged film studio in India. The Studio’s activities span across creative development, production, marketing, distribution, licensing, merchandising …
Media Research Users Council (MRUC) and Audit bureau of circulation (ABC) are the joint promoters of Readership Studies Council of India (RSCI). The RSCI is mandated by the industry to oversee the conduct of a unified Indian Readership Study (IRS), the world\’s largest continuous readership study. The 2016 IRS data, released by January 2017, has …
The Office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) came into being on 1stJuly, 1956. Registration of newspaper is essential under PRB Act, 1867. Printing and publishing of newspapers and periodicals within India are governed by the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 and the Registration of Newspapers (Central) Rules, 1956. According to the …
Audit bureau of circulation (ABC), founded in 1948, is a not-for-profit, voluntary organization consisting of publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies as members, that certifies circulation figures for member publications through a process of audit. ABC implements a standard and uniform audit procedure by which a member publisher compute its qualifying copies. The circulation figure is …
