Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited was a film production and distribution company that produced and distributed Hindi films. The chief of the company was Dhilin Mehta.
Television
Ashtavinayak Cine Vision produced the serial Amrapali on Doordarshan in 2002.
Company information
The company management includes the following people :-
Dhilin Mehta - Chairman & Managing Director
S. S. Jaswal - Director
Rupen N. Amlani, Dhaval V. Jatania, Hiren J. Gandhi - Full Time Directors
Ashok V. Ladhani, Chandrakant K. Sachde, Nishant A. Mahidhar, Hetal N. Thakore - Independent Non-Executive Directors
It is listed on the BSE with a BSE Code of 532793 and the NSE with an NSE Code of SHREEASHTA.
Its Registered office is at A-204/205, VIP Plaza, 2nd Floor, Off Andheri Malad Link Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400053.[1]
The next year, more prominence came in for the company as it produced the comedies Golmaal: Fun Unlimited (2006) and Bhagam Bhag (2006). While the former marked its first major collaboration with Ajay Devgn as well as director Rohit Shetty, the latter was one of the company's first of many collaborations with Akshay Kumar. Both films featured Rawal in prominent roles.
Blue was Shree Ashtavinayak's biggest project till date with its budget set to INR 100 crores. It was an action film shot in The Bahamas and starring Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta and Zayed Khan. However, the film performed poorly at the box office, and got predominantly negative reviews. It also released Luck with a negative result as it earned even less than Kidnap.
Dabangg, Shree Ashtavinayak's most commercial release performed very well at the box office, with its first day collection surpassing that of 3 Idiots, which was distributed by Big Pictures. Dabangg is one of biggest hits of Bollywood.[2] 2010 also earned the company some acclaim and success with the comedies Khatta Meetha and Golmaal 3, which were successful.
Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision entered into Joint Venture with LFS Global for creating India's largest film city near Mumbai.[3] In 2011, it produced the cult classic Rockstar, also directed by Ali. As the company faced judicial crisis, it halted operations after producing its final film, the 2012 comedy Bol Bachchan, also directed by Shetty.
However, on 20 June 2014, the company was suspended from trading. Additionally, the Bombay High Court assigned a liquidator after the company failed to pay its creditors.[4] Later, it had to sell the rights of the Golmaal franchise to Shetty, who became a producer in 2014.
Some time later, in 2017–18, when Zee Entertainment Enterprises was rechristened with a new logo, theme and slogans, it syndicated the company's pre-2008 releases, and began broadcasting them on its channels, the only three exceptions being Fun2shh, Agnipankh and Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya which were readily acquired by Viacom18. Currently, two titles, viz. Khatta Meetha and Rockstar lie with Zee, one in Luck lies with Sony Pictures Networks India, and the rest in a mix between Viacom18 and Disney Star.