Ultra Media & Entertainment
| Private company | |
| Industry | Film |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | Sushilkumar Agrawal |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
| Products | movies |
Number of employees | 250 |
| Website | http://www.ultraindia.com |
Ultra Media & Entertainment earlier known as Ultra Distributors, is an Indian Film production company established in year 1982. It started as Home Video distribution and gradually forayed into film production & theatrical distribution. It is also engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including post production service and film distribution. Ultra has a library of over 1500 titles of award winning and blockbuster feature films, TV Dramas, Animation, Music and digital content. The company is into post production services such as Scanning, Restoration, Colorization, 2D to Stereoscopic 3D Conversion and Merchandising.
Film Production
It produced Jalpari (film), releaseed in 2012.[1]
Restoration
The Company has restored & digitized classic Hindi movie Pyaasa which was directed by Guru Dutt. As per the report, the original camera negative had come to them from the archives completely melted, with parts damaged or lost. After several clean-ups, they managed to retrieve the actual content from the original camera negative. 45 restoration experts worked for almost 4 months over 2 lakh frames. The original monaural soundtrack remastered at 24-bit from the 35 mm optical soundtrack. The company has sent it for Venice Film Festival 2015 where it will be releases in Restore Classic section of the festival. Apart from Pyaasa, the company has also restored Raj Kapoor's Chori Chori, Kishore Kumar's Half Ticket and Shammi Kapoor's Dil Tera Deewana movies [2]
References
- ↑ "Jalpari shines at Marche Du Cannes". Daily Bhaskar. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ↑ "PYAASA GOES TO VENICE". Mumbai Mirror. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.