Jayantilal Gada is an Indian film producer who is also a distributor of Indian films. He founded the popular Indian film production and distribution company Pen Studios (formerly known as Pen India Limited) in 1987.
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Jayanthilal Vershi Gada was born on Saturday, 31 March 1962 (age 61; as of 2023) in Lakadia, Gujarat, India. His zodiac sign is Aries. He studied till tenth standard in Gurukul Gujarati School, Gujarat High School, Ghatkofar. Gadam completed photography and radio repair courses.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′6″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family and caste
He belongs to a Hindu-Kuchi Vagar family in Gujarat.
parents and siblings
His father, from Vershi to Kheti, ran several kirana shops in Ghatkofar. In 2013, he died 11 days after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. His mother is in Jivaben Vershi.
A picture of Jayanthilal Gada with his mother and a photograph of his late father on the wall
wife and children
Jayantilal Gada married Hansa Gada at the age of 21. The couple has three children, two sons and one daughter. Their eldest son, Daval Jayantilal is also a film and television producer. Their younger son Akshay Jayantilal Gadam founded Bollywood Times Private Limited, a digital entertainment portal, at the age of 19. In 2015, Akshay Gava was welcomed to the Board of Directors of Pen India Limited.
Hansa Gada’s picture with Daval Gada
Jayantilal along with Gada Dhawal and Akshay
His daughter, Bhavita Jayantilal Gada, became part of the animation division of Pen India Limited in 2006.
Jaantilal Gada’s daughter with her family
Relationships/affairs
Gada and Reshmaa Kadakia, Head of Finance and Accounts at Pens Studio, were attracted to each other, but since Gada was already married to Hansa, he could not marry her new love interest. Somehow, the two got together and called each other “husband and wife”. He has a son from Reshma who studied film production. In an interview, while talking about his love life, Gadam said:
I, being a Hindu, could not marry twice, so until I can marry Reshmaa, she is no less a wife to me. We have been together for 22 years and have a son.
Reshma Kadakia and Jayantilal Gada
religion
He follows Hinduism.
Career
Origin of trade
After completing tenth standard, he started working in his retired father’s shops. He continued like this for two years and later, out of boredom, he started a video library in his father’s store and named the popular video cassette company. There, he gave rented film cassettes for Rs. 10. Dad didn’t like his business, so he started renting VCR machines. He also started a video-photo business where he filmed weddings and paid Rs. 10,000 per event. At the age of 25, Jayantilal Gadama acquired the film copyright from Dhirubhai Shah. This business suffered some losses and went bankrupt. Heera Seth of Esquire Video Film Services Pvt. Ltd. taught Jyantilal about copyright. In an interview, Gad talked about how he was on the road to success after he partnered with Doordarshan and said;
So we introduced an innovative policy to DD where we would buy a three-hour slot from them, play a film on it and also sell advertisements to make money. This policy was accepted and they gave the rights to NFDC who subsequently sold the slots to us. The government, we and the producers of the film all made money.”
In an interview in 2014, while talking about how his career flourished, Jiantial said that he had always dreamed of presenting a 3D version of Sholay on television. In addition, he added
he [Sholay] was still running in theaters and thus GP Sippy sahab did not want it on TV so that the normal price of Rs. He asked me 25 GEL for a movie on TV. 1.25 million, knowing that I would not be able to pay. But I decided. We convinced DD to treat Sholay as three films to give us three times more TV time for Rs. 1.25 crores and they did. Can you imagine that one show of Sholay would go on for around 9 hours because there were so many commercials and we played the songs twice? And even though we really worried the audience, the film had a record TRP of 76, which is still a benchmark. I earned both money and name through Sholay. I bought the rights to show it twice and then I went to Sony TV and convinced them to show it. “
Jayantilal Gada with film producer Gippy Sippy
Pen Studios
On March 31, 1987, Jayanthilal Gadam established a film production and distribution company in Mumbai and named it Pen India Limited; Now called Pen Studios. The production house is primarily responsible for the production and distribution of Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. In 1992, Gada’s business was re-incorporated as “Popular Entertainment Network (PEN) India Ltd.” Gada’s Pen Studios is known to be a loyal buyer of Zee Entertainment Enterprises. In 2000, he became the managing director of Pen Studios. He retired in 2014 at the age of 52. On 3 November 2014, his son Daval Gada was named as his successor at Pen Studios; However, due to some reasons, Jayanthilal returned to the office on April 1, 2016.
Pen Studio logo
Production and presentation of films under Pen Studios
He has produced several films under Pen Studios including Kahaani (2012), the animated film Mahabharat (2013) and Entertainment (2014). Apart from producing, Gadam also presented award-winning films like RRR (2022) and Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022). As of 2023, Pen Studios has universally acquired the rights to distribute Hindi films to television networks including Zee TV, Sony Entertainment Television, Sahara One and Disney Star. Jayantilal Gada has been associated as rights holder in several films including Sauda (1995), Kohram (1999), Lal Baadshah (1999), Kitne Door Kitne Paas (2002), Shararat (2002) and Yeh Mera India (2008).
other works
Dr. Gada has been appointed as a director of several private companies including Popular Entertainment Network Private Limited (21 December 1983), Play My Song Private Limited (16 March 2016), Bollywood Times Private Limited (17 March 2016) and Pen Seal Creative Private Limited (201 September 2020). On April 27, 2016, he was appointed as an individual partner at Wizart Associates Llp.
Confrontation
The investigation wing of the Income Tax Department from Mumbai has launched an investigation into suspected tax evasion in popular manufacturing houses on April 19, 2023. Among the leading production houses were Jayantilal Gada’s Pen Studios and his home. According to reports, the producer was investigated by the Tax Service on charges of tax evasion and financial violations. The search of his office and residence began in the morning and continued until late that evening. Another producer whose office and residence were searched was Vinod Bhanushali.
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Sued by Askar Ravichandran in 2021
Regarding the remake of the Tamil film Anniyan (2005) starring Ranveer Singh, producer Askar Ravichandran filed a lawsuit against producers Jayantilal Kagar and S. Against Shankar in 2021. The remake of the film was allegedly announced without Ravichandran’s knowledge. In an interview, he said he had taken up the matter with SIFCC, the South Indian Chamber of Commerce of Cinematography. Ravichandran said that only he owns the copyright of the film and that anyone else would infringe on those rights. He added that the film cannot be repeated without his consent.
I am completely shocked to know that you are likely to direct a Hindi film by taking the story of the film Aniyan. You are well aware of the fact that I am the producer of the said movie Annian. I have acquired the rights of the entire story from the writer Sujatha (same as late Rangarajan) for which I have paid him in full and the necessary notes are also available. I am the full and sole owner of the rights to the story. As such, any adaptation or adaptation or copying of the main plot of the said film without my permission is completely illegal.”
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Descendants of Gangubai Kotevali complained
In April 2021, Babuji Shah, the son of Gangubai, allegedly accused actor Alia Bhatt, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Jayantilal Gada and writer Hussain Zaid of misrepresenting his mother and misrepresenting the facts in the film “Based on Gangubai”. At the conference, the lawyer for the Gangubai family, Narendra Dubey, said:
The way Gangubai is portrayed is completely wrong and baseless. It is vulgar. You represent a social activist as a whore. Which family will like it? You created it [Gangubai] Vamp and Lady Don.”
He also said that the case was tried in court and the court asked Babuji Rauji Shah to produce proof that he was really Gangubai’s son. he also said
Although we proved it in the court, but now there is no hearing on this issue.”
finally he said
They asked the family if Gangubai was really a prostitute and not a social worker as they said. The mental state of the family is not good. No one can live peacefully.”
ᐯildo
- In 2013, he was awarded the Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Award at the 13th Annual Transmedia Screen & Stage Awards.
Jayantilal Gada after receiving an award at the 2013 Gujarati Screen and Stage Awards
- In 2018, Jayantilal Gada was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universal Academy for Global Peace (AUGP).
Dr. Jayantilal Gada receives an honorary doctorate in 2018
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, while talking about his success, Gadama said that he felt proud to be the one who sold video cassettes of celebrities to make films with them. He also added,
What could be bigger than that for me? From now on, my travel would only be about money. I was interested in movies, not money.”
- In an interview, Gadam said that if Hansa hadn’t been there, he wouldn’t have been able to achieve his dreams.
- In 2021, Jayantilal was shifted to a hospital in Mumbai, where he underwent a heart surgery, during which doctors installed a pacemaker in his heart.
- In an interview, he regretted not being able to spend much time with both wives and said:
I feel I didn’t give enough time to both my wives as I was busy working at Zee, managing two families and keeping the stars, producers and directors happy. It was hard and I finished it. “
- After receiving an honorary doctorate, he was appointed as the ambassador of the Universal Global Peace Academy for Peace and Humanity in India.
- For his achievements in the field of cinema, he has been praised by several celebrities including Narendra Modi.
Jayantilal Gada along with Narendra Modi
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