Phantom Films

Phantom Films
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

References

  1. ↑ Shackleton, Liz (24 November 2011). "Kashyap conjures up Phantom Films". Screen Daily.
  2. ↑ "Phantom in conversation with team box office India". Box Office India. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Sanjai, P.R. (8 March 2015). "Reliance Entertainment partners Anurag Kashyap’s Phantom Films". Mint. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Lootera: a slow pace romantic saga worth watching, say critics". Hindustan Times. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Kaushal, Sweta (7 February 2014). "Movie review: Parineeti Chopra re-defines Bollywood heroine in Hasee Toh Phasee". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Mehta, Ankita (6 March 2014). "‘Queen’ Review Roundup: Watch it for Kangana's Superb Performance". International Business Times. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "Top Ten Worldwide Grossers 2014". Box Office India. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "62nd National Film Awards’ winners: ‘Haider’ wins five, Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Queen’ two". The Indian Express. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Malvania, Urvi (27 December 2014). "Ugly is a commercial film: Anurag Kashyap". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "Anushka Sharma turns producer with NH10". Firstpost. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "Hunterrr and NH10 score well". Filmfare. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Bombay Velvet is Ranbir Kapoor's biggest career disaster". India Today. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "'Bombay Velvet' fades against 'Piku'". The Hindu. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  14. ↑ "‘Masaan’ to release in India on July 24". The Hindu. 28 May 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  15. ↑ "Pyaar Ka Punchnama still raking in moolah". The Free Press Journal. 31 October 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  16. ↑ "Did 'Pyaar ka Punchnama 2' prove detrimental to 'Shaandaar' and 'Main Aur Charles'?". Daily News and Analysis. 31 October 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  17. ↑ "Cineman and Phantom Films to co-produce three Gujarati films". Indian Express. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  18. ↑ "62nd National Film Awards for 2014 (Press Release)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. February 24, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-25.

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