Viacom18 Studios

Viacom18 Studios
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film
Founded	2006; 18 years ago
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Ajit Andhare (COO)
Owner	Network18 Group
Website	www.viacom18studios.com

Viacom18 Studios (formerly Studio 18 and Viacom18 Motion Pictures) is an Indian film distribution and production company. It is a subsidiary of Viacom18 (formerly a Paramount Networks EMEAA and Network18 Group joint venture, now owned by Network18 and Bodhi Tree Systems) based in Mumbai and it is one of the first studio model based motion picture & content production business in India, with an operation that involves acquisition, production, syndication, marketing and worldwide distribution of full-length feature films as well as digital only films, web series, short films.

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Due to Viacom being one of the partners in the company at that time, they also distribute films from Paramount Pictures in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka since 2011, starting with Transformers: Dark of the Moon.^[2]^[3]

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Release date	Film	Director	Notes
2007	Kya Love Story Hai	Lovely Singh	As Studio 18
	Jab We Met	Imtiaz Ali	As Indian Films
	Welcome	Anees Bazmee	As Indian Films
2008	Bhoothnath	Vivek Sharma	As Indian Films
	Singh Is Kinng	Anees Bazmee	As Indian Films
	Kidnap	Sanjay Gadhvi	As Indian Films
	Golmaal Returns	Rohit Shetty	As Indian Films
	Little Zizou	Sooni Taraporevala	As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Dil Kabaddi	Anil Sharma	As Indian Films and Studio 18
2009	Short Kut	Neeraj Vora	As Indian Films; remake of Malayalam movie Udayananu Tharam
	Luck	Soham Shah	As Indian Films; adaptation of 2001 Spanish thriller film Intacto
	Life Partner	Rumi Jaffery	As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Road, Movie	Dev Benegal	As Indian Films and Studio 18
2010	It's a Wonderful Afterlife	Gurinder Chadha	As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Striker	Chandan Arora	As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Hum Tum Aur Ghost	Kabeer Kaushik	As Indian Films and Studio 18; remake of 2008 Hollywood film Ghost Town, Inspired from the Hollywood films The Sixth Sense (1999), Heart and Souls (1993)
	That Girl in Yellow Boots	Anurag Kashyap
2011	Tanu Weds Manu	Aanand L. Rai
	Pyaar Ka Punchnama	Luv Ranjan
	Shaitan	Bejoy Nambiar
	Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap	Puri Jagannadh
	Speedy Singhs	Robert Lieberman	English film, Dubbed in Hindi language.
	Loot	Rajnish Raj Thakur
2012	Players	Abbas–Mustan	Remake of 1969 British film The Italian Job
	Kahaani	Sujoy Ghosh
	Blood Money	Vishal Mahadkar
	Bittoo Boss	Supavitra Babul
	Department	Ram Gopal Varma
	Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1	Anurag Kashyap	First Installment of Gangs of Wasseypur
	Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2	Anurag Kashyap	Second Installment of Gangs of Wasseypur
	OMG – Oh My God!	Umesh Shukla	Based on the 2001 Australian film The Man Who Sued God and the storyline is based on Gujarati Stage play Kanji Virudh Kanji
	Aiyyaa	Sachin Kundalkar
	Keymon & Nani In Space Adventure	DQ Entertainment	Animated Film^[4]
	Son of Sardaar	Ashwni Dhir	Remake of Telugu film Maryada Ramanna
2013	Inkaar	Sudhir Mishra
	Special 26	Neeraj Pandey	Based on the 1987 Opera House heist in Mumbai, Maharashtra
	Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns	Tigmanshu Dhulia	Second Installment of Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster
	Chasme Baddoor	David Dhawan	Remake of 1981 Bollywood film Chashme Buddoor
	Bombay Talkies	Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap	Anthology film
	Zapatlela 2	Mahesh Kothare	Based on the Don Mancini's Hollywood movie Child's Play. It was the first Marathi Cinema film to be shot in 3D.^[5]^[6]
	Bhaag Milkha Bhaag	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	Life of an Indian Athlete Milkha Singh
	Luv U Soniyo	Joe Rajan
	Madras Cafe	Shoojit Sircar	Debut film of Bollywood South Indian actress Raashi Khanna
	Boss	Anthony D'Souza	Remake of 2010 Malayalam film Pokkiri Raja
	Bhaji in Problem	Smeep Kang	Punjabi film
	What the Fish	Gurmeet Singh
2014	One By Two	Devika Bhagat
	The Royal Bengal Tiger	Neeraj Pandey	Based on the Chuck Palahniuk's English Novel Fight Club
	Queen	Vikas Bahl
	Manjunath	Sandeep A.	Based on the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow graduate Shanmugam Manjunath who was killed in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh in November 2005
	Mary Kom	Omung Kumar	Based on the life of Indian Boxer Mary Kom.
	Gollu Aur Pappu	Kabir Sadanand
	Mumbai Delhi Mumbai	Satish Rajwade	Remake of 2010 Marathi film Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai
	Margarita with a Straw	Shonali Bose
2015	Rahasya	Manish Gupta
	Dharam Sankat Mein	Fuwad Khan	Remake of 2010 British film The Infidel
	Gabbar Is Back	Krish Jagarlamudi	Remake of 2002 Tamil movie Ramanaa
	Drishyam	Nishikant Kamat
	Manjhi – The Mountain Man	Ketan Mehta	Based on the life of Mountain Man Dashrath Manjhi Jointly produced by NFDC India
	Time Out	Rikhil Bahadur
	Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2	Luv Ranjan
	Black	Raja Chanda	Indo-Bangladesh film
2016	Airlift	Raja Krishna Menon
	Santa Banta Pvt Ltd	Akashdeep Sahir
	Budhia Singh – Born to Run	Soumendra Padhi	Based on the Life of India's Youngest Marathon Runner Budhia Singh
	Photocopy	Vijay Maurya	Marathi Film, co-production with Neha Rajpal Productions^[7]
	Motu Patlu: King of Kings	Suhas D. Kadav	Animated Film
	Force 2	Abhinay Deo
2017	Rangoon	Vishal Bhardwaj	Based on the life and times of Mary Ann Evans aka Fearless Nadia
	Toilet: Ek Prem Katha	Shree Narayan Singh
	Lucknow Central	Nikkhil Adwani	Based on the Bengali film Muktodhara
	Aval (The House Next Door) in Hindi	Milind Rau	Released in Tamil, Hindi languages and dubbed in Telugu as Gruham^[8]
2018	Padmaavat	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Based on the epic poem of the same name by Malik Muhammad Jayasi
	Aapla Manus	Satish Rajwade	Marathi film, A film adaptation of the Marathi play Katkon Trikon by Dr Vivek Bele
	Manto	Nandita Das	Based on the Prominent Urdu Novelist Saadat Hasan Manto.
	Andhadhun	Sriram Raghavan
	Jalebi: The Everlasting Taste of Love	Pushpdeep Bhardwaj
	Baazaar	Gauravv K. Chawla
2019	Bhai: Vyakti Ki Valli	Mahesh Manjrekar	Based on the life of Marathi writer and humorist Pu La Deshpande
	Thackeray	Abhijit Panse	Based on the life of Shiv Sena Party leader Bal Thackeray, Released in Hindi, Marathi languages
	Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel	B. Unnikrishnan	Malayalam film
	Romeo Akbar Walter	Robbie Grewal
	Manmadhudu 2	Rahul Ravindran	Telugu film, Sequel of 2002 film Manmadhudu, Remake of 2006 French film I Do
	Motichoor Chaknachoor	Debamitra Biswal
	The Body	Jeethu Joseph	Remake of 2012 Spanish film The Body. It was Already remade in 2016 Tamil-Kannada film Game and Oru Melliya Kodu
	Thambi	Jeethu Joseph	Tamil film
2020	Shimla Mirchi	Ramesh Sippy
	Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal	Desingh Periyasamy
	Krishna and His Leela	Ravikanth Perepu
2021	Sarbath	Prabhakaran	Tamil film
2021	Bhramam	Ravi K. Chandran	Remake of 2018 Bollywood film Andhadhun
2022	Hey Sinamika	Brinda	Tamil film
	Gehraiyaan	Shakun Batra
	Jugjugg Jeeyo	Raj Mehta
	Shabaash Mithu	Srijit Mukherji	Based on the life of current Test and ODI captain of the India women's national cricket team, Mithali Raj
	Nitham Oru Vaanam	Ra. Karthik	Co-produced with Rise East Entertainment
	Laal Singh Chaddha	Advait Chandan	Remake of 1994 Hollywood film Forrest Gump.
	Drishyam 2	Abhishek Pathak	Second part of Drishyam film
	Govinda Naam Mera	Shashank Khaitan	Co-produced with Dharma Productions
2023	Zwigato	Nandita Das
	Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani	Karan Johar
	OMG 2	Amit Rai
	Suspect	Samir Karnik
	Dhak Dhak	Tarun Dudeja
2024	Fighter	Siddharth Anand	^[9]

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Films distributed

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Year	Film	Director	Production Company	Notes
2007	Kya Love Story Hai	Lovely Singh	VR Entertainers Adlabs Films	As Studio 18
	Jab We Met	Imtiaz Ali	Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision	As Indian Films
	Welcome	Anees Bazmee	UTV Motion Pictures Base Industries Group	As Indian Films
2008	Bhoothnath	Vivek Sharma	Eros International B.R. Films	As Indian Films
	Singh Is Kinng	Anees Bazmee	Big Pictures Hari Om Entertainment Blockbuster Movie Entertainers Adlabs Films	As Indian Films
	Kidnap	Sanjay Gadhvi	Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision	As Indian Films
	Golmaal Returns	Rohit Shetty	Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision	As Indian Films
	Little Zizou	Sooni Taraporevala		As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Dil Kabaddi	Anil Sharma	Paramhans Creations	As Indian Films and Studio 18
2009	Short Kut	Neeraj Vora	Anil Kapoor Film Company	As Indian Films
	Luck	Soham Shah	Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision	As Indian Films
	Life Partner	Rumi Jaffery	Burmawala Bros	As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Road, Movie	Dev Benegal	August Entertainment	As Indian Films and Studio 18
2010	It's a Wonderful Afterlife	Gurinder Chadha	Icon Productions Bend It Films	As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Striker	Chandan Arora	Makefilms	As Indian Films and Studio 18
	Hum Tum Aur Ghost	Kabeer Kaushik	Shooting Star Films	As Indian Films and Studio 18
2011	Tanu Weds Manu	Aanand L. Rai	Soundrya Production
	Shaitan	Bejoy Nambiar	Tipping Point Films, Anurag Kashyap Films, Getaway Films
	Keymon & Nani in Space Adventure	Swarna Prasad	Nickelodeon India, DQ Entertainment International
	Loot	Rajnish Raj Thakur	Popcorn Motion Pictures
2012	Players	Abbas–Mustan	Paramount Pictures, Viacom18 Motion Pictures
2012	Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2	Anurag Kashyap	AKFPL	Sequel of Gangs of Wasseypur
2013	Luv U Soniyo	Joe Rajan	Viacom18 Motion Pictures
2014	Anaamika	Sekhar Kammula	Endemol India
2015	Drishyam	Nishikant Kamat	Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Panorama Studios
	Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2	Luv Ranjan	Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Luv Films	Second installment of Pyaar Ka Punchnama
	Nanak Shah Fakir	Sartaj Singh Pannu	Gurbani Media	Punjabi film
2016	Force 2	Abhinay Deo	Viacom18 Motion Pictures, JA Entertainment, Sunshine Pictures	Second installment of Force
	Gods of Egypt	Alex Proyas	Summit Entertainment, Mystery Clock Cinema	Indian theatrical distribution only^[10]
	Nerve	Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman	Lionsgate, Allison Shearmur Productions	Indian theatrical distribution only^[11]
	Deepwater Horizon	Peter Berg	Summit Entertainment, Participant Media, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Closest to the Hole Productions, Leverage
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	Summit Entertainment
	Patriots Day	Peter Berg	Lionsgate, CBS Films, Bluegrass Films, Closest to the Hole Productions
2017	Power Rangers	Dean Israelite	Lionsgate, SCG Films, Temple Hill Entertainment
2018	Andhadhun	Sriram Raghavan	Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Matchbox Pictures
2018	Jalebi: The Everlasting Taste of Love	Pushpdeep Bhardwaj	Vishesh Films	Remake of 2016 Bengali film Praktan
2022	Gangubai Kathiawadi	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Pen India Limited, Bhansali Productions	International distribution only;^[12] distributed by Pen Marudhar Cine Entertainment in India
	Cobra	R. Ajay Gnanamuthu	Viacom18 Studios	Tamil Film
	Jugjugg Jeeyo	Raj Mehta	Dharma Productions
2024	Jigra	Vasan Bala	Dharma Productions, Eternal Sunshine Productions

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Year	Title	Language	Network	Notes	Ref(s)
2021	Ray	Hindi	Netflix		^[13]
2023	Kaalkoot	Hindi	JioCinema		^[14]

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