Baweja Studios Limited was incorporated as ‘Baweja Movies Private Limited’ on March 16, 2001 under the Companies Act, 1956 with the Registrar of Companies, Mumbai. Further, the name of the company was changed to ‘Baweja Studios Private Limited’ vide special resolution passed in the Extraordinary General Meeting dated July 09, 2021. The fresh certificate of incorporation consequent to name change was issued on September 06, 2021 by the Registrar of Companies, Mumbai. Subsequently, the company converted from a private limited company to a public limited company and the name of the company was changed to ‘Baweja Studios Limited’ pursuant to a fresh certificate of incorporation granted to the company by the RoC, Mumbai, dated December 01, 2021.
The company is a technology-based content production house that specializes in all formats of commercial films with an aim to push the boundaries of storytelling and technology advancements in its field. As the business process, the company engages in research & development of scripts, end-to-end production of content, Intellectual Property creation and monetization of rights. The company is one of the players in the media and entertainment sector with a proven track record of producing high quality content. The company’s strength lies in its approach which revolves around sourcing of content either through in-house story developments, content acquisition, remake rights or adoption of books. After which a thorough selection process is carried out at various levels before starting the project for production.
The company’s management committee then selects an appropriate model (production or co-production) for the project. In case of production, the company undertakes the entire production activity of the film while retaining all the rights, titles, interests, copyrights, intellectual property rights, exploitation rights and all other ancillary rights of the films. Production model increases the risk related to a single project as production studio has to bear all expenses and to look after complete financing. The company remains the sole owner and thus is solely responsible for activities such as marketing, promotion, distribution among others and accrues all the revenues.
Whereas in co-production, the company serves as line producers wherein it produces the movies and deliver it to the clients (including the ownership and copyrights) as per the agreement for a pre-agreed fee ensuring predictable profits. After that it becomes a collaborative process between the platform/studio and the company. Whereas the distribution of the content is the sole responsibility of the co-producer. In some cases, it does enter into profit sharing arrangements with its clients. This helps in decreasing the risks related to a single project as the financing is generally taken care by the co-producers as per terms of the agreement while it focuses and use its expertise in production of quality content. At every stage of completion of the film, basis the production agreements, it earns its revenues thereby ensuring the predictability of revenues.
Business area of the company
The company is primarily engaged in the business of production of Media Entertainment & Content.
Awards, achievements and accolades
- 2014: Received the ‘21st Annual Life OK Screen Awards’ in the category of Best Animation for ‘Chaar Sahibzaade’.
- 2015: Received the ‘Recognition Award’ for ‘Chaar Sahibzaade’ from PTC Punjabi.
- 2015: Received award for ‘Film Director’ for film ‘Chaar Sahibzaade’ from ‘Capital Foundation National Award’ honouring Mr. Harjaspal Singh Baweja.
History and milestones
- 2002: Producer of the film ‘Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai’ (Hindi) (Colour)
- 2005: Producer of the film ‘Qayamat’ (Hindi) (Colour).
- 2005: Producer of the film ‘Main Aisa hi Hoon’ (Hindi) (Colour).
- 2006: Producer of film ‘Tesri Aankh’ (Hindi) (Colour).
- 2006: Producer of film ‘Karm’ (Hindi) (Colour).
- 2007: Producer of film ‘Speed’ (Hindi) (Colour).
- 2014: Producer of the film ‘Chaar Sahibzaade’ (3-D) (Hindi and Punjabi) (Colour) (Animation Film).
- 2020: Co-Producer of Hindi-Language Crime Drama web series named ‘Bhaukaal’ for OTT Platform
- 2022: Co-Producer of Punjabi Language Movie ‘Honeymoon’.