Gemini Studios

Not to be confused with Gemini Film Circuit.

Gemini Studios
Company typeLimited
IndustryMotion pictures
Founded1940 (1940)
FounderS. S. Vasan
Defunct1975; 49 years ago (1975)
Headquarters
Madras
,
India
Area served
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Bollywood
Andhra Pradesh
Websitehttp://geminiindia.in
Subramaniam Srinivasan, popularly known by his screen name S. S. Vasan, was an Indian journalist, writer, advertiser, film producer, director and business tycoon
Subramaniam Srinivasan, Proprietor of Gemini Pictures

Gemini Studios was an Indian film studio based in Madras, Tamil Nadu. It was launched when S. S. Vasan, a businessman of many ventures (including the ownership of Ananda Vikatan) bought Motion Picture Producers' Combines from Krishnaswamy Subrahmanyam and renamed it.[1] The studio re-opened under the name Gemini. Despite the common beliefs about a lucky racehorse or the astrological sign of his wife, it was the logo Vasan chose that led to the name. Subrahmanyam had shown him a picture of his very young boys, blowing on toy trumpets in the nude. Vasan chose the pose to craft the logo and hence the name Gemini—The Twins.[2] The new facade also had statues of ‘The Gemini Twins’, blowing the bugle. Gemini Studios served as a breeding ground for innumerable artists and technicians for the south Indian Film Industry. The Gemini twins became a household symbol and the Gemini flyover was named after the original studio at that junction. Gemini Studios is one of the few producers in Tamil cinema to survive beyond 100 productions along with AVM, Modern Theatres, Thenandal Films, etc.

A chapter called "Poets and Pancakes" is based upon Gemini studios which is an excerpt from a novel My years with the Boss by Asokamitran is in the English curriculum of Class 12th Flamingo textbook by NCERT.

  1. ^ A Madras Miscellany, S. Muthiah, Published by EastWest Books, pg 644 Categories
  2. ^ A Madras Miscellany, S. Muthiah, Published by EastWest Books, pg 260