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Dharma Productions Pvt. Ltd. Industry Motion pictures Founded Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (1976) Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Key people Yash Johar, Sunil Dutt (Founders) Karan Johar (Chairman) Products Motion pictures Website dharma-production.com Dharma Productions Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian film company founded by Yash Johar in 1976.
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Dharma Productions and NDTV recently decided to jointly launch an entertainment television channel called NDTV Imagine.[1]
Controversy
On 12 May 2009 Philadelphia Daily News released an article stating Dharma Productions was faced with a lawsuit over unpaid wages for local Philadelphia actors and vendors to the sum of US $150,000.[2] The actors and vendors were a part of the cast of the Rensil D'Silva directed film Kurbaan, which starred Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. The lawsuit also included a restraining order preventing footage shot in the United States for the film, to be restricted from leaving the country.[3] Dharma claims that it is not responsible for the claims they are being sued for, since the claims are between the individual actors and vendors and Melbourne based Swish Group Limited, a company Dharma hired to supervise the production of the film.[4] In good faith, even though Dharma is not legally responsible for the loss of wages for the actors and vendors, Karan Johar and his team have begun to reimburse claimants of their losses, and plans to take further action against Swish Group Limited as to what happened to the original funds that were paid to Swish to compensate each worker their wages.[5]
Although we were never liable to make any payments (and we still continue not to be liable), we went ahead and made settlement offers in good faith over the last two months. A large number of people have accepted our good faith settlement offers. This law suit has been filed by people (claimants) who did not accept our good faith settlement offers. - Statement released by Dharma Productions.[5]
Films produced by Dharma Productions
Year Film Director 1980 Dostana Raj Khosla 1984 Duniya Ramesh Talwar 1987 Muqaddar Ka Faisla Prakash Mehra 1990 Agneepath Mukul S. Anand 1993 Gumrah Mahesh Bhatt 1998 Duplicate Mahesh Bhatt Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Karan Johar 2001 Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Karan Johar 2003 Kal Ho Naa Ho Nikhil Advani 2005 Kaal Soham Shah 2006 Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Karan Johar 2008 Dostana Tarun Mansukhani 2009 Wake Up Sid Ayan Mukerji Kurbaan Rensil D'Silva 2010 My Name Is Khan Karan Johar I Hate Luv Storys Punit Malhotra We Are Family Siddharth Malhotra 2011 Koochie Koochie Hota Hain Tarun Mansukhani 2012 Agneepath Karan Malhotra Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu Shakun Batra Student of the Year Karan Johar References
- ^ http://www.multibaggers.in/2008_01_01_archive.html
- ^ http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20090512_2_film_producers_sued_over_Bollywood_thriller.html 2 film producers sued over Bollywood thriller
- ^ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News-By-Industry/ET-Cetera/Dharma-Productions-slapped-with-lawsuit-in-US/articleshow/4525051.cms Dharma Productions slapped with lawsuit in US
- ^ http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20090515/1070/ten-dharma-sankat.html Yahoo News - Dharma Sankat
- ^ a b http://www3.dharma-production.com/ Dharma Productions
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- Dharma Productions at the Internet Movie Database
Dharma Productions Key Individuals Nikhil Advani Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)Mukul S. Anand Agneepath (1990)Shakun Batra Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012)Mahesh Bhatt Rensil D'Silva Kurbaan (2009)Raj Khosla Dostana (1980)Karan Johar Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001) • Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) • My Name Is Khan (2010)Punit Malhotra I Hate Luv Storys (2010)Siddharth Malhotra We Are Family (2010)Tarun Mansukhani Prakash Mehra Muqaddar Ka Faisla (1987)Ayan Mukerji Wake Up Sid (2009)Ramesh Talwar Duniya (1984)Categories:- Bollywood
- Film production companies of India
- Companies established in 1976
- Companies based in Mumbai
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