Welcome to Star Entertainment

Bringing the Best of Worldwide Entertainment to the Indian Sub Continent.

Star Entertainment is India's most reputed & oldest independent English Film Distribution Company since 1985, which has successfully distributed Hollywood blockbusters & entertainment/ animation programs in India for the past 23 years.

We provide India's Cinemas, Multiplexes, TV Stations & DVD/Video Outlets,New Media inc. VOD and Mobile with some of the worlds best independent films, animation comedy's, sport specials, documentaries, sitcoms, educational programs carefully sourced from across the world inc.USA, UK, France, Hong Kong, Korea,Canada,Italy and Japan.

We distribute and represent Films/ Programs from some of the World's best entertainment media companies inc. Studio Canal, Summit Entertainment, Granada,Gaumont, Fremantle Media,Myriad Pictures,2929 International, Hearst Entertainment, Wild Bunch, Emperor Pictures & the Discovery Channel.

Till date we have theatrically distributed over 150 feature films and 300 films for Television and Video in India inc. such blockbusters as "Dirty Dancing, The Party, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Four Weddings & A Funeral, Jumanji, The Jungle Book, King Cobra, House on Haunted Hill, Cross Roads, Iris, The Phantom Mummy, Terminator 2, Austin Powers in the Gold Member, Adventures of Tintin, The Rambo Triology, The India Pakistan Highlights 2005, Beyblade, The Asterix films,Swimming Pool,Hotel Rwanda,Rob B Hood,Outlander,The Carry on Collection of Films, Mind Your Language etc.

We also have the worlds most loved stars in our collection of International films. We also specialise in dubbing our programs to suit the needs of Indian Regional channels and cinemas.

Brief History
1985: We pioneered the distribution of Independent English films to India, and were among the first company/s to import foreign films into India!

1990: we produced our first Hindi feature film-the star studded “AMMA”

1993:We created "RADIOSTAR" marking the advent of commercial FM radio in India. Were the first to apply for an FM Radio License in India. We were the first private Radio broadcaster to go on air in India broadcasting daily to the city of Bombay-now Known as Mumbai-on 107.1 FM every morning-during prime time! Completed a five-year license period of successful broadcast.

RADIOSTAR has been popularly and critically acclaimed by press and listeners, known for slick and entertaining programming, some of our most popular DJ's now also veejay for MTV and Television. We have produced over 2000 hrs of premixed radio programming already till date. RADIOSTAR also provides international music services & produces customized programmes for Radio stations.

RADIOSTAR has also Produced & sponsored programs for All India Radio, and for several sponsors including Hindustan Lever, Pepsi Co. Mahindra & Mahindra amongst others.

1994-1999 Star Entertainment were also appointed Consultants to the Walt Disney-Modi Joint Venture Company- Modi Films International.
(Exclusive distributors of all Buena Vista Films for India until 1999).

We successfully completed a turnkey project for them to set up and manage for a 3-year period,their nationwide film distribution infrastructure and MIS-THEREBY creating the single biggest film distribution company in India, with over 9 branch offices countrywide.

1995-1997: Represented CINEASIA (the premier Asian cinema trade fair ) to help develop and promote Indian cinema exhibitors participation for renovation and modernizing Indian Cinemas.

2000:We created a Video Licensing and Distribution division, which has become a huge success. Today we control the Video rights of more than 300 independent English titles . This division has also since been extended to distribute Specials, Miniseries, TV Series, Documentaries, Animation, Health, Education, Food and Sports titles

* From 2001 we also expanded the market of English Films in India by dubbing select films into local Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil and Telegu.

* Since 2002, we also became the leading Independent supplier of English feature films, TV serials and Animation to various Indian Television channels including the National and regional channels, by dubbing them into the regional languages.

* In 2003 we launched our Export Division to represent reputed Indian producers to market their product (Feature Films/Animation/Health) worldwide especially through representation at film markets and personal relations built up over the years with leading International Distributors/Agents and TV stations worldwide. We also started licensing and export of films to the neighbouring countries of the Indian subcontinent such as Srilanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh!

* In 2004, we have been appointed the sole agent for DISCOVERY Channel’s catalogue for the territory of India for their Video catalogues of Kids, Health and Travel & Adventure.

* In 2005 we initiated our first steps with distribution and exploitation of Mobile content, on a revenue sharing basis to promote and exploit quality animation content for which we own mobile content licenses for our territory!

*In 2006, Star Entertainment took a firm decision to explore further opportunities and partner with VAS operators/aggregators for the following new media services inc. Video on Demand, IPTV, Internet and Digital media!

*In 2007 we increased & expanded our Video Catalogue to over 400 Films including new genres and non-fiction including high quality programming on parenting, health, educational, animation, travel and documentaries.

*2008 We invested and acquired increased our content to over 300 foreign films for Television including new & Classics Films, Award Winning and World Films, besides also expanding our animation library to over 400 hours of content. We also acquired non-fiction, educational travel & Lifestyle programs for Television.

*2009 We turned our focus on Visual, Big budgeted and more commercial Theatrical Films for Cinema release including ONE MAN ARMY (ONG BAK 2) * Tony Jaa ( A High Octane Action Thriller Funny Valette), HIGH LANE, FIGHTER * DONNIE YEIN, SPLICE * Adrian Brody, WUSHU (A Jackie Chan Production) which will see release in India during 2009-10!

All these films would be dubbed and released in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi besides English.

OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM

An Outline About Our Managing Director
Our current Managing Director Mr. Jiten Hemdev Has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, A Bachelor of General Law Degree and is a Diploma Holder of the Miltonian Institute of Leadership Training He has also been awarded a Gold Medal in Banking and Finance by the A.D.Shroff Memorial Institute and is also currently the President of the Foreign Film Chamber of India (since 1989) and is the Chief Executive for the Foreign Film Publicity censor committee of India (appointed by the Government of India)

Management :

Harish Sharma: Business Manager - Films (Sales & Distribution)

Shabnam Hemdev: Acquisitions & PR / Promotions
She is a commerce graduate from Bombay. She has been with the company since the last 10 years and is responsible for administration, PR & Promotion / Creative activities & also assists acquisition for the company. She is also an experienced & recognised fashion designer in India & has garment collections are exported worldwide.

Ratheesh Nair: Sr. Marketing Executive

Dinesh Birade: Asst. Manager, Import & Censor

Rafael Mendonca: Librarian, Asst. Manager (Technical)

Sanjay Gharat: Publicity Designing and Editing of films, Website maintenance