# Pen Studios

Pen Studios (formerly Popular Entertainment Network) is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Dr. Jayantilal Gada on 31 March 1987. Based in Mumbai, it mainly produces and distributes Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. In 1992, the business was restructured under the name Popular Entertainment Network, and began to acquire video rights for movies to be distributed over various media such as video cassettes, satellites, terrestrial platforms, etc. The company subsequently forayed into theatrical and distribution rights of movies.
In the past few years, Pen Studios has produced films such as Kahaani and Shivaay, with many A-listers, that have been a huge success at the box office. The company, now, is also expanding by focusing on producing good regional content.
Pen India Limited launched a new Television Channel named WOW. WOW's content library is full of various old and new Hindi film musics and movies to latest Gujarati, Hindi dubbed (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada) films, and TV series such as Mahabharat.

## Initial years

Dr. Jayantilal Gada started as a small-time entrepreneur with a video library called Popular Video Cassette Co in 1984. Later, he went into trading of video rights and distribution of VHS tapes across India by establishing Asia's biggest video shop, "Popular Video", at Lamington Road, Mumbai.

## Brief history

Restructured and formed Popular Entertainment Network Limited (with brand name 'PEN') in 1992 and started dealing in copyrights of Hindi feature films viz. video, satellite and Doordarshan (DD).
In 1995, PEN created another landmark by telecasting Sholay 20 years after its theatrical release on Doordarshan and creating a record with the highest ever Television viewing ratings (76 TRPs) with about 7.5 crore revenues.
Daughter Bhavita Jayantilal Gada also joined PEN in 2006 and started an animation division with mega projects like Mahabharat.
In 2009, son Dhaval Gada, after completing his course at Whistling Woods International Institute, joined PEN to streamline production activities.

## Film history

In 2012, PEN's maiden production Kahaani with Sujoy Ghosh proves successful at the box office.
In 2013, PEN released three projects: Issaq, released all over India in 900 theatres. Singh Saab the Great on 1970 screens in India. Mahabharat 3D animation feature film also released in 300 theatres.
In 2014, PEN completed and finally released Sholay 3D in 780 theatres in India. PEN also co-produces and distributes Nagesh Kukunoor's Art House film Lakshmii on 82 screens, Entertainment in 3,200 screens worldwide. PEN also distributed and released Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami on 490 screens and Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya on 890 screens.
PEN has been associated in the past with films such as Sauda (1995), Kohram (1999), Lal Baadshah (1999), Kitne Door Kitne Paas (2002), Shararat (2002), and Yeh Mera India (2009) as rights=holders and not as a production.

## TV Channels

* BFlix Movies (Nitestv.online Movies)
* All Time Movies

### Defunct

* I Love

## Filmography
### Production

| Year | Film | Cast |
| 2008 | Yeh Mera India | Anupam Kher, Purab Kohli |
| 2010 | Kaalo | Swini Khara |
| 2011 | Chatur Singh Two Star | Sanjay Dutt, Ameesha Patel |
| 2012 | Kahaani | Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui |
| 2013 | Issaq | Prateik Babbar, Amyra Dastur, Ravi Kishan |
| 2013 | Mahabharat | Ajay Devgan, Anil Kapoor |
| 2013 | Singh Saab The Great | Sunny Deol, Urvashi Rautela, Prakash Raj |
| 2014 | Lakshmi | Nagesh Kukunoor, Monali Thakur |
| 2014 | Sholay 3D | Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan |
| 2014 | Rang Rasiya | Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen |
| 2014 | Entertainment | Akshay Kumar, Tamannaah |
| 2014 | Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami | Anupam Kher, Neha Dhupia |
| 2015 | P Se PM Tak | Meenakshi Dixit |
| 2015 | Singh Is Bliing | Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta |
| 2016 | Rajini Murugan | Sivakarthikeyan, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran, Soori, Samuthirakani |
| 2016 | Mastizaade | Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor |
| 2016 | Do Lafzon Ki Kahani | Randeep Hooda, Kajal Aggarwal |
| 2016 | Wah Taj | Shreyas Talpade, Manjari Phadnis |
| 2016 | Shivaay | Ajay Devgn, Sayyeshaa Saigal |
| 2016 | Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh | Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal |
| 2016 | Nagarahavu | Vishnuvardhan |
| 2017 | Commando 2: The Black Money Trail | Vidyut Jamwal, Adah Sharma Esha Gupta |
| 2017 | Machine | Mustafa Burmawala, Kiara Advani, Ronit Roy |
| 2017 | Haseena Parkar | Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang |
| 2018 | Aiyaary | Siddharth Malhotra, Manoj Bajpai, Rakul Preet Singh |
| 2018 | GujjuBhai - Most Wanted | Siddharth Randeria, Jimit Trivedi |
| 2018 | Mercury | Prabhu Deva |
| 2018 | Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se | Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Kriti Kharbanda |
| 2018 | Helicopter Eela | Kajol, Riddhi Sen, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Neha Dhupia |
| 2018 | Namaste England | Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Kishore Bhatt, Aditya Seal |
| 2018 | Sandakozhi 2 | Vishal, Rajkiran, Keerthy Suresh, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar |
| 2019 | The Accidental Prime Minister | Anupam Kher, Akshaye Khanna |
| 2019 | Total Dhamaal | Ajay Devgn, Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey |
| 2019 | Mere Pyare Prime Minister | Anjali Patil, Om Kanojiya, Makrand Deshpande, Rasika Agashe |
| 2019 | Yeh Saali Aashiqui | Vardhan Puri, Shivaleeka Oberoi |
| 2020 | Gul Makai | Reem Shaikh, Atul Kulkarni, Divya Dutta, Mukesh Rishi, Pankaj Tripathi |
| 2021 | The Power | Vidyut Jammwal, Shruti Haasan |
| 2021 | Kya Meri Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai? | Jassie Gill, Surbhi Jyoti |
| 2021 | Bhavai | Pratik Gandhi, Aindrita Ray |
| 2022 | Khiladi | Ravi Teja, Arjun Sarja, Unni Mukundan, Meenakshi Chaudhary, Dimple Hayathi |
| 2022 | Gangubai Kathiawadi | Alia Bhatt |
| 2022 | Attack | John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez, Rakul Preet Singh |
| 2022 | RRR | NTR Jr., Ram Charan |
| 2022 | Chup: Revenge of the Artist | Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Pooja Bhatt |
| 2023 | Pathu Thala | Silambarasan, Gautham Karthik |
| 2023 | Chatrapathi | Bellamkonda Sreenivas, Nushrratt Bharuccha |

### Distribution

| Year | Film | Cast |
| 2018 | Zero | Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif |
| 2019 | Badla | Taapsee Pannu, Amitabh Bachchan |
| 2019 | Annabelle Comes Home | Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Katie Sarife, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Christopher Plummer |
| 2019 | Judgementall Hai Kya | Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao |
| 2019 | Jabariya Jodi | Siddharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra |
| 2019 | Dream Girl | Ayushmann Khurana, Nushrat Bharucha |
| 2019 | Satellite Shankar | Sooraj Pancholi |
| 2019 | Marjaavaan | Siddharth Malhotra, Tara Sutaria, Riteish Deshmukh |
| 2019 | Bombshell | Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie |
| 2020 | Jawaani Jaaneman | Saif Ali Khan, Alaya F |
| 2020 | Love Aaj Kal | Kartik Aaryan, Sara Ali Khan, Randeep Hooda, Aarushi Sharma |
| 2020 | Kaamyaab | Sanjay Mishra |
| 2020 | Angrezi Medium | Irrfan Khan, Deepak Dobriyal, Radhika Madan, Kareena Kapoor Khan |
| 2022 | Vikram Vedha | Saif Ali Khan, Hrithik Roshan |
| 2022 | Bhediya | Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon, Abhishek Banerjee, Paalin Kabak, Deepak Dobriyal |
| 2022 | Cirkus | Ranveer Singh, Varun Sharma, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez |
| 2023 | Zara Hatke Zara Bachke | Vicky Kaushal, Sara Ali Khan |
| 2023 | Satyaprem Ki Katha | Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani |
| 2023 | Ghoomer | Abhishek Bachchan, Saiyami Kher, Shabana Azmi |
| 2023 | Jawan | Shah Rukh Khan, Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara |
| 2023 | Sukhee | Shilpa Shetty |
| 2023 | The Vaccine War | Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi |
| 2023 | Ghost | Shiva Rajkumar, Jayaraj, Anupam Kher |
| 2023 | Sajini Shinde Ka Viral Video | Nimrat Kaur, Radhika Madan, Bhagyashree, Subodh Bhave |
| 2023 | Jigarthanda DoubleX | Raghava Lawrence, S. J. Suryah |
| 2023 | Dunki | Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Vikram Kochhar, Anil Grover, Boman Irani, Vicky Kaushal |
| 2024 | Main Atal Hoon | Pankaj Tripathi |
| 2024 | Merry Christmas | Katrina Kaif, Vijay Sethupathi |
| 2024 | Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya | Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon |
| 2024 | Kaagaz 2 | Anupam Kher, Satish Kaushik, Darshan Kumar |
| 2024 | Crew | Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kriti Sanon |
| 2024 | The Three Musketeers: Milady | François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Pio Marmaï, Romain Duris, Eva Green |
| 2024 | Chandu Champion | Kartik Aaryan, Vijay Raaz |
| 2024 | Munjya | Sharvari, Abhay Verma |
| 2024 | Ishq Vishk Rebound | Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan, Jibraan Khan, Naila Grrewal |
| 2024 | Hindustani 2 | Kamal Haasan |
| 2024 | Sarfira | Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Radhika Madan |
| 2024 | Ulajh | Janhvi Kapoor, Roshan Mathew, Gulshan Devaiah, Adil Hussain |
| 2024 | Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha | Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Jimmy Sheirgill |
| 2024 | Stree 2 | Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee, Aparshakti Khurana |
| 2024 | The Buckingham Murders | Kareena Kapoor Khan |
| 2024 | Bhaiyya Ji | Manoj Bajpayee |
| 2024 | Kanguva | Suriya, Bobby Deol, Disha Patani |
| 2024 | Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam | Dhvani Bhanushali, Aashim Gulati |
| 2025 | Chhaava | Vicky Kaushal, Rashmika Mandanna, Akshaye Khanna |
| 2025 | Sikandar | Salman Khan, Sathyaraj, Rashmika Mandana |