G V Films Ltd Summary
GV Films Limited (GVFL) burst into the Indian Film Market in year 1989. The main object of the Company was production and distribution of feature films in various languages. The 3 verticals of the Company, Film Production and Distribution, Film Exhibition and New Media Technology are the cash cows for the Company.
The Company was promoted by Mr. G.Venkateswaran.The Companys contribution to the South Indian Film Industry is enormous more particularly to the Tamil Film Industry which is the third biggest in India, next to Hindi and Telugu Film Industry. G V Films entered into a tie-up with Sony, Japan, to manufacture, for the first time in India, compact discs (CDs), which were hitherto imported.
In 1994-95, it acquired a theatre complex in Thanjavur, Tamilnadu. The Film Production and distribution has two under production films, The White Land (TWL) and Brides Wanted (BW). The first copy of BW is already out and TWL is being given post production touch.
GVFL has launched a Film Distribution Division with the name of One Window.During the year 2003, 100 Tamil movies were produced of which 12 movies had good run, Viz., Kakkha Kakkha, Kadhal Kondein, Samy, Thiruda Thirudi, Thirumalai, Dhool, Jeyam, Pithamagan, Jay Jay, Parthiban Kanavu, etc. The Company in 2007, purchased three theatres under one roof viz., Ganga, Gowri, and Gayathri at Gudiyatham and theatres were opened for public viewing from 9th February 2007.In 2009-10, the Shanthi Kamala Complex at Tanjore with 5 screens multiplex was reopened after renovation and all screens became operational on 29.01.2010. The Company launched Film Distribution Division with the name One Window in 2012-13.
Two Hindi movies produced, The White Land (TWL) and Brides Wanted (BW) got released in 2013.In Film Exhibition vertical, the Company has five operative screens of its own at Tanjavur in Tamilnadu. The road map for this vertical is to have a network 274 screens pan India in 36 months.In web technology segment, with the introduction of 3G and the iPods the Company will be able to leverage its 14,000 films Bollywood, Tollywood and Hollywood titles in the near future. In tandem with Mani Ratnam, one of the finest directors in the country, GV Films presented a Rich films, each one a block-buster and award winner.
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