GV Films was established in the year 1989 by G Venkateswaran who was a Chartered Accountant by profession. The main object of the company was production and distribution of feature films in various languages. This was the first company in the movie business in India to get listed in the Indian bourses with permission from the government and having shareholders through the length and breadth of India.
The company's contribution to the South Indian Film Industry is enormous more particularly to the Tamil Film Industry which is the third biggest in India next to Hindi and Telugu Film Industry.
GV Films re-grouped with a brand new team of professionals, with rich experience and varied background, who has core competencies in niche areas, GV Films is all poised for a great take off.
The company’s issue was oversubscribed by 7.8 times with over 30,000 investors from the public. G V Films entered into a tie-up with Japan’s Sony to manufacture compact discs (CDs) for the first time in India, which were hitherto imported.
Products/Services:
a) Production and distribution of feature films in various languages
b) Multiplexes - Shanthi and Kamala Multiplexes
- Built in a total area of 1 acre and 15 cents,
- Total Built up area about 34,000 square feet,
- Capacity: Shanthi - 1,250 seats; Kamala - 675 seats. The multiplex is one of the most-sought-after theatres that has been releasing several block-busters year after year. In addition the theatre has a whole array of revenue generation through brand promotions
- Television serials – 3D serieal Mayavi -- a partly science fiction and partly an action oriented spy thriller. This is the first of its kind in the television.
Milestones:
- India's First listed Public Limited Company from the media Industry
- First to export Tamil films to Japan and later to the other non-traditional, South East Asian markets like Korea.
- The first to bring DTS to a theatre of an A-class town in Tamilnadu.
- With foresight, acquired Internet rights for over 6,000 films way back in 1999-2000 for web casting that constitute valuable intellectual property rights.