Zee Studios

Established in 2012, Zee Studios, a subsidiary of the Essel Group, is an Indian film studio. It produces, acquires and distributes films across genres, budgets and languages, along with short and long-format digital content.

Not to be confused with Zee Studio.

For the music company, see Zee Music Company.

Zee Studios

Type	Studio
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	2012
Founder	Shariq Patel (CEO)
Headquarters	Essel Vision Productions Ltd., 5th Floor, Fun Republic Building, Opp. Laxmi Industrial Estate, Off New Link Road, Andheri West, Mumbai 400053.
Products	Production, Distribution and Marketing of films and digital content

The studio makes films in various Indian languages and has been also involved in international productions.[1] Most films can be found streaming on OTT platforms ZEE5, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Film productions and distribution[2]

Year	Film	Director	Producer(s)	Notes	Lead Roles	Ref
2001	Gadar: Ek Prem Katha	Anil Sharma	Ravi KumarSitamari	Produced under Zee Telefilms	Sunny Deol Amisha Patel Amrish Puri Lilette Dubey	[3]
2005	Bhagmati	Ashok Kaul		Produced under Zee Telefilms	Tabu Milind Soman J. V. Somayajulu	[4]
2009	Gulaal	Anurag Kashyap		Produced under Zee Limelight	Raj Singh Chaudhary Kay Kay Menon Deepak Dobriyal Mahi Gill Ayesha Mohan Jesse Randhawa Aditya Srivastava Piyush Mishra Abhimanyu Singh Savi Sidhhu	[5]
2009	Fox	Deepak Tijori	Rohit Kumar Productions	Produced under Zee Motion Pictures	Sunny Deol Arjun Rampal Udita Goswami Sagarika Ghatge	[6]
2010	Aakrosh	Priyadarshan	Kumar Mangat Matt Zemlin	Produced under Zee Motion Pictures	Ajay Devgan Akshaye Khanna Bipasha Basu Paresh Rawal Reema Sen	[7]
2015	Jazbaa	Sanjay Gupta	Sanjay Gupta	Produced under Zee Studios	Aishwarya Rai Irrfan Khan Shabana Azmi	[8]
2016	Sairat	Nagraj Manjule	Nittin Keni Nikhil Sane Nagraj Manjule	Produced under Zee Studios	Rinku Rajguru Akash Thosar	[9]
2016	Rustom	Tinu Suresh Desai	Aruna Bhatia Nittin Keni Akash Chawla	Produced under Zee Studios	Akshay Kumar Ileana D'Cruz Esha Gupta Arjan Bajwa Pavan Malhotra Kumud Mishra Usha Nadkarni	[10]
2017	Ti Saddhya Kay Karte	Satish Rajwade	Nikhil Sane Arvind Jog Pallavi Rajwade	Produced under Zee Studios	Ankush Chaudhari Tejashree Pradhan Ketkar Abhinay Berde Aarya Ambekar Hruditya Rajwade Nirmohi Agnihotri	[11]
2017	Chi Va Chi Sau Ka	Paresh Mokashi	Nikhil Sane	Produced under Zee Studios	Lalit Prabhakar Mrinmayee Godbole	[12]
2017	Faster Fene	Aditya Sarpotdar	Riteish Deshmukh Genelia Deshmukh Mangesh Kulkarni	Produced under Zee Studios	Amey Wagh Parna Pethe Girish Kulkarni Siddhartha Jadhav Dilip Prabhavalkar	[13]
2017	Mom	Ravi Udyawar	Sunil Manchanda Naresh Agarwal Mukesh Talreja Gautam Jain Boney Kapoor	Produced under Zee Studios	Sridevi Nawazuddin Siddiqui Akshaye Khanna Sajal Ali Adnan Siddiqui	[14]
2017	Secret Superstar	Advait Chandan	Aamir Khan Kiran Rao	Produced under Zee Studios	Zaira Wasim Meher Vij Raj Arjun Aamir Khan	[15]
2017	Qarib Qarib Singlle	Tanuja Chandra	Zee Studios Sutapa Sikdar Shailja Kejriwal Ajay G. Rai	Produced under Zee Studios	Irrfan Khan Parvathy Thiruvothu	[16]
2017	Raees	Rahul Dholakia	Ritesh Sidhwani Farhan Akhtar Gauri Khan	Produced under Zee Studios	Shah Rukh Khan Nawazuddin Siddiqui Mahira Khan	[17]
2017	Half Girlfriend	Mohit Suri	Shobha Kapoor Ekta Kapoor Mohit Suri Chetan Bhagat	Produced under Zee Studios	Arjun Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor	[18]
2017	Bareilly Ki Barfi	Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari	Vineet Jain Renu Ravi Chopra	Produced under Zee Studios	Ayushmann Khurrana Rajkummar Rao Kriti Sanon	[19]
2017	Fukrey Returns	Mrighdeep Singh Lamba	Farhan Akhtar Ritesh Sidhwani	Produced under Zee Studios	Pulkit Samrat Manjot Singh Ali Fazal Varun Sharma Priya Anand Vishakha Singh Pankaj Tripathi Richa Chadda	[20]
2017	Hindi Medium	Saket Chaudhary	Dinesh Vijan Bhushan Kumar	Produced under Zee Studios	Irrfan Khan Saba Qamar	[21]
2018	Gulabjaam	Sachin Kundalkar	Vinod Malgewar Vishal Chordia	Produced under Zee Studios	Siddharth Chandekar Sonali Kulkarni	[22]
2018	Beyond the Clouds	Majid Majidi	Shareen Mantri Kedia Kishor Arora	Produced under Zee Studios	Ishaan Khatter Malavika Mohanan	[23]
2018	Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran	Abhishek Sharma	JA Entertainment Zee Studios KYTA Production	Produced under Zee5	John Abraham Diana Penty Boman Irani	[24]
2018	Dhadak	Shashank Khaitan	Karan Johar Hiroo Yash Johar Apoorva Mehta	Produced under Zee Studios	Ishaan Khatter Janhvi Kapoor	[25]
2018	Paltan	J.P. Dutta	Zee Studios J P Films	Produced under 'Zee Studios	Jackie Shroff Arjun Rampal Sonu Sood Gurmeet Choudhary Harshvardhan Rane Siddhanth Kapoor Luv Sinha Esha Gupta Sonal Chauhan Monica Gill Dipika Kakar Aditii Arya Sharma	[26]
2018	Love Sonia	Tabrez Noorani	David Womark Tabrez Noorani	Produced under Zee Studios	Mrunal Thakur Freida Pinto Demi Moore Mark Duplass Manoj Bajpayee Rajkummar Rao Richa Chadda Riya Sisodiya Anupam Kher Adil Hussain Sai Tamhankar Sunny Pawar	[27]
2018	Raazi	Meghna Gulzar	Vineet Jain Karan Johar Hiroo Yash Johar Apoorva Mehta	Produced under Zee Studios	Alia Bhatt Vicky Kaushal	[28]
2018	Veere Di Wedding	Shashanka Ghosh	Anil Kapoor Rhea Kapoor Nikhil Dwivedi Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor	Produced under Zee Studios	Kareena Kapoor Khan Sonam Kapoor Ahu Swara Bhaskar Shikha Talsania	[29]
2018	Mulk	Anubhav Sinha	Deepak Mukut Anubhav Sinha	Produced under Zee Studios	Rishi Kapoor Taapsee Pannu Manoj Pahwa Prateik Babbar Rajat Kapoor Ashutosh Rana	[30]
2018	Gold	Reema Kagti	Ritesh Sidhwani Farhan Akhtar	Produced under Zee Studios	Akshay Kumar Mouni Roy Kunal Kapoor Amit Sadh Vineet Kumar Singh Sunny Kaushal	[31]
2018	Zero	Aanand L. Rai	Aanand L. Rai Gauri Khan	Produced under Zee Studios	Shah Rukh Khan Anushka Sharma Katrina Kaif	[32]
2019	Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi	Kangana Ranaut Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi	Zee Studios Kamal Jain Nishant Pitti	Produced under Zee Studios	Kangana Ranaut Atul Kulkarni Jisshu Sengupta Vaibhav Tatwawaadi Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub Ankita Lokhande	[33]
2019	Kala Shah Kala	Amarjit Singh	Harsimran Dhillon Gursimran Dhillon Achal kaushal Navaniat Singh Binnu Dhillon Karan Soni	Produced under Zee Studios	Binnu Dhillon Sargun Mehta Jordan Sandhu Karamjit Anmol Shehnaaz Kaur Gill	[34]
2019	Milan Talkies	Tigmanshu Dhulia	P.S. Chhatwal	Produced under Zee Studios	Ali Fazal Shraddha Srinath Ashutosh Rana Reecha Sinha Sanjay Mishra Sikandar Kher	[35]
2019	Kesari	Anurag Singh	Karan Johar Aruna Bhatia Hiroo Yash Johar Apoorva Mehta Sunir Khetarpal	Produced under Zee Studios	Akshay Kumar	[36]
2019	Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota	Vasan Bala	Ronnie Screwvala	Produced under Zee Studios	Abhimanyu Dassani Radhika Madan Gulshan Devaiah Mahesh Manjrekar Jimit Trivedi Satyajit Ganu	[37]
2019	The Tashkent Files	Vivek Agnihotri	Pranay Chokshi Anuya Chauhan Kudecha Vivek Agnihotri Ritesh Kudecha Sharad Patel	Produced under Zee Studios	Naseeruddin Shah Mithun Chakraborty Shweta Basu Prasad Pankaj Tripathi Mandira Bedi Pallavi Joshi	[38]
2019	Rampaat	Ravi Jadhav	Meghana Jadhav Zee Studios	Produced under Zee Studios and Athaansh Communications	Abinay Berde Kashmira Pardeshi	[39]
2019	Article 15	Anubhav Sinha	Anubhav Sinha Zee Studios	Produced under Zee Studios	Ayushmann Khurrana Nassar Manoj Pahwa Kumud Mishra Isha Talwar Sayani Gupta Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub	[40]
2019	Pailwaan(Hindi dubbed)	S. Krishna	Swapna Krishna	Produced under Zee Studios	Sudeep Suniel Shetty Aakanksha Singh Kabir Duhan Singh Sushant Singh Avinash Sharath Lohitashwa	[41]
2019	Good Newwz	Raj Mehta	Hiroo Yash Johar Aruna Bhatia Karan Johar Apoorva Mehta Shashank Khaitan	Produced under Zee Studios	Akshay Kumar Kareena Kapoor Khan Diljit Dosanjh Kiara Advani	[42]
2019	Uri: The Surgical Strike	Aditya Dhar	Ronnie Screwvala	Produced under Zee Studios	Vicky Kaushal Paresh Rawal Yami Gautam Mohit Raina Kirti Kulhari	[43]
2019	Bombairiya	Pia Sukanya	Michael E. Ward	Produced under Zee Studios	Radhika Apte Siddhanth Kapoor Akshay Oberoi Adil Hussain Ravi Kishan	[44]
2019	Kumbalangi Nights	Madhu C. Narayanan	Fahadh Faasil Nazriya Nazim Dileesh Pothan Syam Pushkaran	Produced under Zee Studios	Soubin Shahir Shane Nigam Fahadh Faasil Sreenath Bhasi Mathew Thomas Anna Ben	[45]
2019	Gully Boy	Zoya Akhtar	Farhan Akhtar Zoya Akhtar Ritesh Sidhwani	Produced under Zee Studios	Ranveer Singh Alia Bhatt Siddhant Chaturvedi	[46]
2019	Oru Adaar Love	Omar Lulu	Ousepachan Vaalakuzhy	Produced under Zee Studios	Mohammad roshan Noorin Shereef Priya Prakash Varrier	[47]
2019	Badla	Sujoy Ghosh	Gauri Khan Sunir Khetarpal Akshai Puri	Produced under Zee Studios	Amitabh Bachchan Taapsee Pannu Amrita Singh	[48]
2019	Lucifer (film)	Prithviraj Sukumaran	Antony Perumbavoor	Produced under Zee Studios	Mohanlal	[49]
2019	Madhura Raja	Vysakh	Nelson Ipe	Produced under Zee Studios	Mammootty Anusree Jai Jagapathi Babu	[50]
2019	Blank	Behzad Khambata	Shrikant Bhasi Nishant Pitti & Pictures Tony D'Souza Vishal Rana	Produced under Zee Studios	Sunny Deol Karan Kapadia Karanvir Sharma Ishita Dutta	[51]
2019	Judgementall Hai Kya	Prakash Kovelamudi	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor Shailesh R Singh	Produced under Zee Studios	Rajkummar Rao Kangana Ranaut	[52]
2019	Nerkonda Paarvai	H. Vinoth	Boney Kapoor	Produced under Zee Studios	Ajith Kumar Shraddha Srinath Abhirami Venkatachalam Andrea Tariang	[53]
2019	Jabariya Jodi	Prashant Singh	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor Shailesh R Singh	Produced under Zee Studios	Sidharth Malhotra Parineeti Chopra	[54]
2019	Dream Girl	Raaj Shaandilyaa	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor	Produced under Zee Studios	Ayushmann Khurrana Nushrat Bharucha Annu Kapoor	[55]
2019	Prassthanam	Deva Katta	Maanayata Dutt	Produced under Zee Studios	Sanjay Dutt Jackie Shroff Manisha Koirala Chunky Pandey Ali Fazal Satyajeet Dubey	[56]
2019	Panipat	Ashutosh Gowariker	Sunita Gowariker Rohit Shelatkar	Produced under Zee Studios	Arjun Kapoor Sanjay Dutt Kriti Sanon	[57]
2020	Hacked	Vikram Bhatt	Krishna Bhatt Amar Thakkar Jatin Sethi	Produced under Zee Studios	Hina Khan Rohan Shah Mohit Malhotra Sid Makkar	[58]
2020	Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship	Bhanu Pratap Singh	Hiroo Yash Johar Karan Johar Apoorva Mehta Shashank Khaitan	Produced under Zee Studios	Vicky Kaushal Bhumi Pednekar Ashutosh Rana	[59]
2020	Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare	Alankrita Shrivastava	Shobha Kapoor	Produced under Zee Studios	Konkona Sen Sharma Bhumi Pednekar	[60]
2020	Khaali Peeli			Produced under Zee Studios
2020	Toofan			Produced under Zee Studios
2020	Maidaan			Produced under Zee Studios
2020	Valimai			Produced under Zee Studios

See also

• Essel Vision Productions

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