Jayantilal Gada

Jayantilal Gada
Born (1962-03-31) 31 March 1962 (age 62)
Lakadia, Gujarat, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationProducer

Jayantilal Gada is an Indian film producer and distributor. He ventured into film production under his production company, Popular Entertainment Network (PEN) India Ltd.

He is known for producing the 2013 Hindi-language film Mahabharat, which won Best Animation Film at the 3rd Fiji Film Festival.[1]

He founded the company PEN India (full name, Popular Entertainment Network India and also sometimes written as Pen) in 1987; today the company produces and presents Bollywood films. Gada retired in 2014 at the age of 52.[2] His son is the film and TV producer Dhaval Gada and was announced as his successor at PEN on 3 November 2014. However, Jayantilal Gada resumed office from 1 April 2016.[3]

Gada launched a new Television Channel named WOW (Channel). WOW's content mainly consists of various Bollywood Songs, old and classic Bollywood movies, new Hindi movies and Gujarati movies, along with South Indian (Hindi dubbed) movies, TV series such as Mahabharat and other content.[4][5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ a, Suva (29 July 2014). "Indian Entries Win Awards At the 3rd Fiji Film Festiva". indianhighcommissionfiji.org. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  2. ^ Priya, Gupta (30 November 2014). "Dr Jayantilal Gada: I feel proud that today I am making films with the same stars whose video cassettes I sold at one time". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. ^ Chandra, Vaishali (23 April 2015). "Dhaval Gada Of PEN India : I'll Keep My Father Dr Jayantilal Gada's Head Held High With Pride". Koimoi.com. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  4. ^ https://www.televisionpost.com/jayantilal-gadas-pen-india-plans-to-launch-svod-service [dead link]
  5. ^ "Jayantilal Gada's Pen India to launch four channels in April 2018 - TelevisionPost". Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  6. ^ "A new TV channel that will wow viewers – Times of India". The Times of India.
  7. ^ "Jayantilal Gada's Pen India launched new channel 'WOW'". 19 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Pen expands its digital presence, Launches New Channel 'WOW' in Delhi!". 18 July 2018.