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Phantom Films is an Indian film production company started by Anurag Kashyap, director Vikramaditya Motwane, producer Madhu Mantena and the former head of UTV Spotboy Vikas Bahl. It was founded in 2011 by all three of them, and is cited as the "director's company". In March 2015, Reliance Entertainment picked up 50% stake in the company.
The company’s first production was the period romance Lootera (2013), directed by Motwane and starring Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha. the film was co-prduced by Balaji Motion Pictures. Next year, the company co-produced the romantic-comedy Hasee Toh Phasee and Queen, starring Kangana Ranaut. The film was a critical and commercial success, it also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. It was followed by the thriller's Ugly and NH10 (2015). The latter marked the production debut of Anushka Sharma. Hunterrr (2015), Bombay Velvet (2015) andMasaan (2015) were the company's next releases.
Filmography of Phantom Films (13 films)
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Ghoomketu (2020)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Ragini Khanna, Anurag Kashyap, Ila Arun, Swanand Kirkire, Raghubir Yadav
The story revolves around an aspiring writer (played by Siddiqui) who travels all the way from Lucknow to Mumbai to be a part of films.
Rangoon (2017)
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Kangana Ranaut, Esha Gupta, Richard McCabe, Alex Avery
Rangoon is a Casablanca-like love triangle set against the backdrop of the Second World War and music company name will be Sony Music India.
Udta Punjab (2016)
Directed by Abhishek Chaubey
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh, Satish Kaushik, Ishaan Khattar
L'insurrection de la toxicomanie chez les jeunes dans l'État indien du Pendjab à travers les histoires d'une rock star, un travailleur migrant, un médecin et un policier.
Bombay Velvet (2015)
, 2h29Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Gangster films
Actors Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Raveena Tandon, Karan Johar, Naseeruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon
Set in 1960s Bombay, the film tells the story of Balraj (Ranbir Kapoor), a street fighter/boxer who is in love with the jazz singer Rosie. Seeing Rosie (Anushka Sharma) with wealthy men further sparks his dream of becoming a "big-shot", believing that if he manages to become rich, he might win Rosie's heart. Balraj and his friend Chimman (Satyadeep Misra) then catch the eye of Kaizad Khambatta (Karan Johar), a wealthy businessman who is impressed by Balraj and offers him to manage his club "Bombay Velvet", which Khambatta uses to further his illegal tasks and activities. He also nicknames Balraj "Johnny", which then becomes his identification. As well as this, Johnny and Chimman fulfill minor tasks for Khambatta, including capturing a dirty photograph of a minister who Khambatta wants to blackmail. This news reaches Jimmy Mistri, a media reporter, who also happens to be the same wealthy man Johnny had previously seen with Rosie.
NH10 (2015)
, 1h47Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Deepti Naval, Ravi Jhankal
A couple, Meera (Anushka Sharma) and Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam), are going to a party, where Meera gets an urgent work call from her office. On the way, she is attacked by some street punks who smash her car's window. Meera manages to escape but is shaken by the incident. Arjun suggests a road trip for Meera's upcoming birthday. The couple starts their journey the next day. While stopping at a roadside Dhaba for lunch, a petrified young girl arrives and pleads for help, saying a few men are about to kill her. Meera shakes her off but they see a gang of men round up the same girl and a boy, beat them savagely and drag them to a SUV. Arjun intervenes but Satbir (Darshan Kumar), the gang leader, says the girl is his sister. As the horrified couple watches, the gang drives off. Despite Meera's pleading, Arjun drives after the gang. On a deserted area near the highway, the couple witnesses a brutal honor killing of the young boy and the girl Pinky. Terrified, Arjun and Meera attempt to flee but the gang finds them. As the gang digs graves, Satbir shoots Pinky. A fight ensues and Arjun shoots Chotte, one of the gang members. The gang is enraged and the couple run for their lives.
Shaandaar (2015)
, 2h24Directed by Vikas Bahl
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Govinda, Pankaj Kapur, Sanjay Kapoor, Sushma Seth
Alia a été adoptée enfant dans des circonstances jamais éclaircies. Elle conserve un lien très fort avec son père adoptif, dans la famille Arora sous la coupe de la mère et de la femme de celui-ci. Sous des dehors très riches, la famille espère se sauver de la banqueroute en mariant Eesha, la sœur d'Alia, à une famille qui roule sur l'or. Les deux familles se retrouvent dans un château au Royaume-Uni pour la cérémonie, arrangée par un certain JJ, qui comme Alia, est insomniaque. La famille du fiancé, les Fundwani, arrive dans des scintillements d'or, mais s'avère dans une aussi mauvaise posture financière que les Arora et souhaite ce mariage pour les mêmes raisons cachées.
Masaan (2015)
, 1h49Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Richa Chadda, Vineet Kumar, Vicky Kaushal, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Mishra
Set in present day Banaras, the plot of Masaan follows two seemingly separate story arcs that eventually converge.
Hunterrr (2015)
, 2h21Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gulshan Devaiah, Radhika Apte, Sai Tamhankar, Vaibbhav Tatwawadi
Mandar Ponkshe(Gulshan Devaiah) a typical youth is a sex addict since 15 years. His only intention is to score more girls in order to outshine his cousin brothers. In the year 1989, Mandar along with his cousin Dilip visits his village in north.There the duo encounter with their other cousin brother Kshitij. Kshitij is 15 years old and is over matured in his views and aspects about marriage, love and sex. By the end of their vacation Mandar realises that he is no longer a kid.His life becomes more exotic as he starts to woo girls, watching adult films and misbehaving with ladies.
Queen (2014)
, 2h26Directed by Vikas Bahl
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
Actors Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon, Yogendra Tiku, Alka Kaushal
Rani Mehra (Kangana Ranaut) is an under-confident young Punjabi woman from Delhi. One day prior to her wedding, her fiancé Vijay (Rajkummar Rao) tells her that he no longer wishes to marry her. He explains that his lifestyle has changed after living abroad, and her conservative habits would be a wrong match for him. Stunned at the development, Rani shuts herself in her room for a day. Wanting to take control of the situation, she asks her parents permission to go alone on her pre-booked honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam. After initially hesitating, her parents agree, thinking that a vacation might cheer her up.
Hasee Toh Phasee (2014)
, 2h21Origin Inde
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Adah Sharma, Karan Johar, Manoj Joshi, Bobby Darling
Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra) is a struggling businessman whose girlfriend Karishma (Adah Sharma) is an actress. Nikhil is a guy who believes that once you are committed to a girl, there should be no straying. Karishma asks Nikhil to arrange ₹50 million (US$750 000) before marriage, which is 7 days later, to earn a contract.
Ugly (2013)
, 2h8Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Girish Kulkarni, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Rahul Bhat, Vipin Sharma, Surveen Chawla
The film opens with Shalini (Tejaswini Kolhapure) a lonely and troubled housewife addicted to alcohol, battling depression. She contemplates suicide, hoping to evoke some reaction from her stoic second husband, police chief Shoumik Bose (Ronit Roy), who behaves as if she doesn't exist. Shalini feels trapped in the marriage as Shoumik doesn't talk, taps her phone calls and treats her like a criminal. When she is about to shoot herself in the head with her husband's gun, she is interrupted by her 10-year-old daughter (from her first marriage) Kali (Anishika Shrivastava). Unaware of her mother's state of mind, Kali asks her to call her father, Shalini's estranged ex-husband, Rahul (Rahul Bhat). Rahul is a struggling actor. It is a Saturday, and Kali wishes to spend the day with her father, as decided in the custody agreement of the divorce.
Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane
Actors Imran Khan
It’s a story of a Gujarati rebel named Bhavesh Joshi (Imran Khan), who struggles in Mumbai.
When sources asked Gulshan Devaiah about the plot of the film, he replied, "the sequel will focus on the married life of Mandar (Gulshan) and Tripti (Radhika). It will be wilder, crazier and completely different from the first film.”