Karan Johar took a big step in late 2024 by teaming up with Adar Poonawalla. The CEO of the Serum Institute of India picked up a 50% stake in Dharma Productions and Dharmatic Leisure, for Rs 1000 crores and it was one of many main speaking factors of final yr. And after this growth, KJo is all set to take his enterprise one degree up – he’s all set to enter the movie distribution enterprise.
EXCLUSIVE: Karan Johar expands Dharma Productions; enters movie distribution enterprise
A supply advised Bollywood Hungama, “Till now, Dharma Productions had solely produced movies whereas a studio or main distributor would come on board to launch these films in cinemas. However now, Karan needs Dharma to be an entire studio, which might additionally launch movies in cinemas.”
The supply continued, “Bhumika Tewari, who used to move distribution at Zee Studios, has joined Dharma Productions. She’ll be in control of distributing in-house Dharma movies. Karan has labored along with her prior to now for movies made by Dharma and Zee like Good Newwz (2019), Kesari (2019) and many others. She additionally has years of expertise and is taken into account an enormous identify within the distribution circuit. She has grand plans to make sure that movies of Dharma Productions get the very best launch in cinemas throughout the nation.”
An trade insider commented, “Karan Johar is following within the footsteps of Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra’s Yash Raj Movies (YRF). In addition they have a distribution wing; in truth, YRF has made an enormous identify for themselves not only for producing but in addition distributing movies. KJo needs to observe go well with. It was on his thoughts for a few years and now with Adar Poonawalla’s help, he’s lastly realizing his dream.”
In the meantime, the supply additionally revealed, “Similar to YRF additionally distributes movies made by different banners, Dharma’s distribution wing can be anticipated to do the identical.” Nevertheless, it’s not clear when that may occur. Additionally, the sources should not conscious if Dharma would distribute movies solely in India and whether or not they’d even have presence Abroad.
On the movie entrance, Karan Johar is predicted to start 2025 with Dhadak 2, starring Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri adopted by an untitled interval authorized drama, starring Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan and Ananya Panday.
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