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Jayantilal Gada
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Jayantilal Gada

Indian film producer and distributor (born 1962)

Jayantilal Gada (Not to be confused with Jayantilal from TMKOC) is an Indian film producer and distributor. He ventured into film production under his production company, Pen Studios.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Jayantilal Gada (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Mar 31, 1962.1

About

He is known for producing the 2013 Hindi-language film Mahabharat, which won Best Animation Film at the 3rd Fiji Film Festival.

He founded the company PEN India (Popular Entertainment Network India, sometimes written as Pen) in 1987; today, the company produces and distributes Bollywood films. Gada retired in 2014 at the age of 52. His son, film and TV producer Dhaval Gada, was announced as his successor at PEN on 3 November 2014. However, Jayantilal Gada resumed office from 1 April 2016.

Gada launched a new television channel named WOW. WOW's content mainly consists of Bollywood songs, classic Bollywood movies, new Hindi and Gujarati movies, Hindi-dubbed South Indian language movies, along with TV series such as Mahabharat.

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Companies

Early life and education

Jayantilal Gada is a Kutchi Jain Vagad born in Lakadia, Gujarat. He studied till 10th in Gurukul High School, Ghatkopar. He began working in his father's small grocery store, also taking courses in radio repairing and photography.

Gada started a small video library in a section of his father's store, buying video cassettes from producers for distribution. This sideline grew as he first began hiring out video cassette players, then began filming weddings on video. Later, he moved into wholesaling videos. Popular Video Cassette Library was restructured and renamed PEN in 1992. After financial problems, Gada began moving into acquiring the copyright to films – at this stage he was aged 25.

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Career

Occupation: film producer.4

Personal life

  • BornMar 31, 1962, Lakadiya5
  • CitizenshipIndia6

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