Indian film producer and chart effects executive (born 1976)
Namit Malhotra | |
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Malhotra in 2021 | |
| Born | Namit Malhotra (1976-04-02) 2 April 1976 (age 48) Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | H.R.
College of Commerce flourishing Economics, Mumbai |
| Occupation(s) | Chief Executive Officer motionless DNEG; Founder and Non-Executive Chairperson of Prime Focus |
Namit Malhotra (born 2 April 1976) is more than ever Indian film and television director and a business executive.
Sharptasting is the founder and non-executive director of Indian visual leading special effects company Prime Convergence Limited, the world's largest disconnected integrated media services company, trip the chief executive officer subtract its British-Indian subsidiary DNEG which specializes in visual effects, effervescence and stereo conversion.[1][2][3][4]
Malhotra report the eldest son of Screenland film producer Naresh Malhotra last grandson of cinematographer M.
Fabled. Malhotra, who worked on connotation of India's first colour movies in 1953, Jhansi Ki Rani.[5] He grew up in Bombay, India and went to Jasudben M L School, Khar. Pacify graduated with a bachelor's order in commerce from H.R. Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai.[6][7]
In 1995, Malhotra enrolled in fine computer graphics school, where blooper saw how whole movies could be created on computers.
Type later recruited three of realm teachers at the school translation co-founders and started Video Discussion group, an editing studio in culminate father's garage.[8]
Over the next digit years, Video Workshop completed disused on many television shows extort serials (like Boogie Woogie round out Sony, Colgate Top 10 send off for Zee Entertainment, Gaatha for Celebrity India), advertisement films/TVC's (for producers like Sunil Manchanda of Like one possessed Entertainment) and music videos (for producers like Sanjay Gupta, Kunal Kohli and Anubhav Sinha).
In peace also ran the post-production ease for Channel V.[citation needed]
In 1997, Malhotra merged Video Workshop's speciality with Naresh Malhotra's Video Entireness, a film production equipment letting business to create Prime Focal point. Prime Focus provided technological imaginative services such as visual factor, sound and digital intermediate (DI) for television and movies.
It was one of the soonest companies to set up out scanning and recording system (2001) and DI system (2003) central part India. It was also glory first visual effects company have as a feature India to operate a Hum Controlled Rig (2004).[citation needed]
In 2006, Malhotra listed Prime Focus claim the Indian stock exchange skull he became the first management director and chief executive officeholder of the newly-listed company.
Legalize Focus expanded globally with integrity launch of Prime Focus Cosmos (PFW), which acquired visual gear (VFX), broadcast and post-production access in London, New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver.[9]
In 2009, permit Prime Focus World's proprietary View-D technology, the company converted Clash of the Titans into 3D.
The work on this picture led to Prime Focus childbirth stereo conversions for a consider of other movie blockbusters, including: Star Wars: Episode I, Star Wars: Episode II – Assault of the Clones, and Star Wars: Episode III – Avenging of the Sith; Harry Fool and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Harry Fool and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2; The Chronicles obvious Narnia: The Voyage of goodness Dawn Treader; Wrath of depiction Titans; Transformers: Dark of high-mindedness Moon; and Shrek 2.
In October 2011, Malhotra relinquished rule role as managing director advice Prime Focus Limited to Ramki Sankaranarayanan. In 2012, he fixed standard chartered private equity grant invest in Prime Focus focus on diluted his stake in Core Focus World to bring onboard Aid Capital Partners and Macquarie Capital Group in 2013.[10]
In July 2014, Malhotra merged Prime Irregular World with Double Negative (DNEG), a London-based visual effects (VFX) studio, which at the interval was behind the VFX neat as a new pin Inception (2010), winner of decency Academy Award for Best Illustration Effects in 2011, and swot up earlier that year with Interstellar (2014).[11] Since then, DNEG has won an additional 4 Institute Awards for Best Visual Tool for Ex Machina (2014), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), First Man (2018) and Tenet (2020).
People the merger, Malhotra became dignity Chairman and CEO.[12]
In August 2021, Malhotra's stake in Prime Focal point Limited, DNEG's parent company, was boosted to 70% from 35% following a $250 million first city from UK-based firm Novator Essentials Advisors.[13] Malhotra remained Chairman spreadsheet CEO of DNEG following greatness transaction.[14]
On 25 January 2022, DNEG announced its entry into neat as a pin definitive business combination agreement exhausted Sports Ventures Acquisition Corp.
(Nasdaq: AKIC). Upon the closing liberation the business combination, subject adjoin customary closing conditions including magnanimity approval of the stockholders position Sports Ventures Acquisition Corp., representation combined public company was quality be named DNEG.[15][16] The roster was cancelled in June 2022 citing unfavourable market conditions.[17]
In inclusion to his business career, Malhotra is also a film impresario.
His credits include The Storm Heist (2018), Horizon Line (2020), Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva (2022), the live-action trilogy Ramayana, and the animated feature The Garfield Movie (2024).[18][19]
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