Dev Entertainment Ventures

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Dev Entertainment Ventures
Company type Private
IndustryMovie Production
Founded23 June 2017
Founder Dev
Headquarters,
Key people
Dev (Director & Founder)
Gurupada Adhikari (Director & Founder)
Subsidiaries Dev Music
Dev Distribution
Website Dev Entertainment Ventures

Dev Entertainment Ventures Pvt Ltd is an Indian movie production and distribution company based in Kolkata. The company was established by Dev and Gurupada Adhikari in 2017. In a short while, it became one of the leading Bengali movie production houses in Eastern India.

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History

Dev Entertainment Ventures Pvt Ltd was founded by Deepak Adhikari, better known in the Bengali film industry as Dev, one of the leading artists of Bengal in 2017, with his father Gurupada Adhikari. Dev started his career as an assistant to Abbas Mastan in Mumbai, after that he came to Kolkata for his debut film Agnishapath in 2004. After few years he shot to fame and commercial success with films like I Love You, Premer Kahini, Mon Mane Na, Challenge etc With the emergence of the new wave in contemporary Bengali cinema, Dev founded his company Dev Entertainment Ventures Pvt Ltd to showcase new concepts and talents not from the same mold of the past. Since then all the films produced under his banner have gone on to be both critical as well commercial success and were termed pathbreaking in the Bengali film fraternity. [1]

Offices

In West Bengal, Dev Entertainment Ventures has two different offices in Kolkata, Register office and Distribution office. [2]

Films production

Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearFilmDirectorRef
2017 Chaamp Raj Chakraborty [3]
Cockpit Kamaleshwar Mukherjee [4]
2018 Kabir Aniket Chattopadhyay [5]
Hoichoi Unlimited Aniket Chattopadhyay [6]
2019 Password Kamaleshwar Mukherjee [7] [8]
2021 Habu Chandra Raja Gobu Chandra Montri Aniket Chattopadhyay [9]
Tonic Avijit Sen [10]
2022 Kishmish Rahool Mukherjee [11]
Kacher Manush Pathikrit Basu [12]
Projapoti Avijit Sen [13]
2023 Byomkesh O Durgo Rahasya Birsa Dasgupta [14]
Bagha Jatin Arun Roy [15]
Pradhan Avijit Sen [16]
2024 Tekka Srijit Mukherji [17]
KhadaanSoojit Dutta [18]
2025Binodiini - Ekti Natir Upakhyan Ram Kamal Mukherjee [19]

Film distribution

YearFilmDirector
2017 Cockpit Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
2018 Kabir Aniket Chattopadhyay
Hoichoi Unlimited Aniket Chattopadhyay
Classroom Rajiv Kumar Biswas
2019 Dwikhondito Nabarun Sen
Password Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
2021 Tonic Avijit Sen

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