Friday Night Productions

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Friday Night Productions
Company type Private
Founded Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in 2010
Headquarters,
Key people
Ravi Agnihotri (co-founder)
Abhishek Mohunta(co-founder)
Sandeep Goel(co-founder)
Pritika Idnani (co-founder)

Friday Night Productions (FNP) is an Indian entertainment company set up by Indian School of Business alumni Ravi Agnihotri, Abhishek Mohunta, Sandeep Goel and Pritika Idnani. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Friday Night Productions was set up to make thematic and content-driven movies, which the company's founders believed was missing in Bollywood productions. The first movie produced by the company in this genre is Buddha in a Traffic Jam to be released in 2016. [14] Buddha in a Traffic Jam features National Film Awards winners Anupam Kher and Pallavi Joshi and also features Dev.D lead Mahi Gill and Yeh Saali Zindagi lead Arunoday Singh as Starcast.

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