Bollywood Star Anil Kapoor Launches Production Company — hollywoodreporter.com

Leading Bollywood star Anil Kapoor has launched his own media and entertainment company Antila Ventures. The actor partnered in the venture with MAS Clearsight, a Dubai-based investment banking advisory firm. Antila will be headquartered in the U.K., with offices in Mumbai, Dubai and a planned presence in Singapore and Los Angeles. As a content producer across multiple platforms, Antila intends to create a library of mainstream content for film and television. Projects that will immediately go into production include the second season of the Indian version of 24. Kapoor co-produces and stars in the show, the first international adaptation of the hit Fox show. The first season was co-produced by the actor's existing banner Anil Kapoor Film Company and aired on Viacom18's flagship Colors channel. The second season will return on Colors with production slated to begin in May, for which Kapoor will again portray Anti-Terrorism Unit chief Jai Singh Rathod, the Indian Jack Bauer. The new production company will also soon begin work on film project, 7 Hindustani, described as a light-hearted coming of age story about seven Indian college freshmen studying in the U.S. Production wil begin this fall. And rounding out their slate is feature film project Battle for Bittora, an adaptation of best-selling author Anuja Chauhan’s book of the same name. It's to be a contemporary romance-drama set against the backdrop of elections in North India.

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