JAR Pictures

Jar Pictures
Company type	Private
Industry	Motion picture
Founded	2011
Founder	Ajay G. Rai ; Alan McAlex
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Products	Film production
Website	www.jarpictures.com

Last updated September 10, 2025

JAR Pictures is an Indian motion picture production company based in Mumbai. The company was founded in 2011 by Bollywood producers Ajay G. Rai and Alan McAlex.^[1] Jar Pictures is mostly known for making independent films. Jar Pictures also provides production services to leading studios in India.

History

Jar Pictures was formerly known as Jar Entertainment, a company wholly owned by Ajay G. Rai. Ajay met Alan McAlex while working on the film Thank you (2011) where Ajay was the Executive Producer and Alan was the line producer. They decided to collaborate and Jar Pictures was formed.

Filmography

Films produced by Jar Pictures

Year	Film	Director	Other notes
2012	Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1	Anurag Kashyap	Co-production with Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Tipping Point Films, AKFPL, Phantom Films, Elle Driver, and Bohra Bros
	Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2	Anurag Kashyap	Co-production with Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Tipping Point Films, AKFPL, Phantom Films, and Bohra Bros
	Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana	Sameer Sharma	Co-production with UTV Spotboy and AKFPL
2013	I.D.	Kamal K.M.	Co-production with Collective Phase One
	Vakratunda Mahakaaya	Punarvasu Naik
	Mastram	Akhilesh Jaiswal	Co-production with Bohra Bros
2014	Njan Steve Lopez	Rajeev Ravi
2014	Liar's Dice	Geetu Mohandas	Co-production with Unplugged and Hubert Bals Fund, India's official entry to the 87th Academy Awards
2015	Killa	Avinash Arun
2015	Nil Battey Sannata	Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari	Co-production with Eros International, Colour Yellow Productions, and Opticus Inc
2017	Gurgaon	Shanker Raman	Co-production with Hashtag Film Studios and M R Filmworks
2017	Qarib Qarib Singlle	Tanuja Chandra	Co-production with Zee Studios
2018	Once Again	Kanwal Sethi
2018	Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster 3	Tigmanshu Dhulia	Co-production with Raju Chadha Films and Rahul Mittra Films
2019	Moothon	Geetu Mohandas
	Hummingbird	Ajitpal Singh
	River Song	Sange Dorjee Thongdok
	Chaar Pandrah	Saif Baidya	Starring Gehna Seth as Sarika, [Puneet Mishra], Abhishek Singh
2020	Bamfaad	Ranjan Chandel	Distributed by ZEE5
	London Confidential	Kanwal Sethi	Distributed by ZEE5
	Choked	Anurag Kashyap	Co-production with Good Bad Films, distributed by Netflix
2021	Lahore Confidential	Kunal Kohli	Distributed by ZEE5
2023	Sergeant	Prawaal Raman	Co-production with Jio Studios, distributed by JioCinema
2025	Nishaanchi	Anurag Kashyap	Co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Flip Films, distributed by Amazon MGM Studios

Film Production Services by Jar Pictures

Year	Film	Director	Studio	Other notes
2009	Gulaal	Anurag Kashyap
2011	No One Killed Jessica	Rajkumar Gupta	UTV SpotBoy	(Credited as Jar Entertainment)
	7 Khoon Maaf	Vishal Bhardwaj	UTV SpotBoy VB Pictures	(Credited as Jar Entertainment)
	Thank you	Anees Bazmee	UTV Motion Pictures	(Credited as Jar Entertainment)
	Chillar Party	Nitesh Tiwari Vikas Bahl	UTV SpotBoy	(Credited as Jar Entertainment)
	Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster	Tigmanshu Dhulia
2013	Kai Po Che!	Abhishek Kapoor	UTV Motion Pictures
2014	Bhoothnath Returns	Nitesh Tiwari	B R Films
2015	Talvar	Meghna Gulzar	Junglee Pictures
2015	Fitoor	Abhishek Kapoor	UTV Motion Pictures
2016	Rocky Handsome	Nishikant Kamat	T-Series
2016	Madaari	Nishikant Kamat	Pooja Entertainment
2017	Simran (film)	Hansal Mehta	T-Series
2017	Mukkabaaz	Anurag Kashyap	Eros International
2018	Mental Hai Kya	Prakash Kovelamudi	Balaji Motion Pictures

OTT

Year	Title	Creator(s)	Network
2021	Grahan	Shailendra Kumar Jha	Hotstar
2022	London Files	Sachin Pathak	Voot
2025	Kanneda	Chandan Arora	Hotstar
2025	Kankhajura	Chandan Arora	SonyLIV

Awards

62nd National Film Awards: Best Feature Film in Marathi: Killa ^[4]

References

↑ "Jar Pictures funded India's official entry to Oscar 'Liar's Dice'". Archived from the original on 25 November 2014.
↑ "Geethu Mohandas' 'Liar's Dice' is India's official entry to the Oscars". CNN-IBN. 23 September 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
↑ "Oscars: India Selects 'Liar's Dice' for Foreign-Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
↑ "62nd National Film Awards for 2014 (Press Release)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals . 24 February 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.

External links

Official Website Archived 2 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
Ajay G. Rai at IMDb
Alan McAlex at IMDb

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[1] "Jar Pictures funded India's official entry to Oscar 'Liar's Dice'". Archived from the original on 25 November 2014.

[2] "Geethu Mohandas' 'Liar's Dice' is India's official entry to the Oscars". CNN-IBN. 23 September 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.

[IndiaHWR-3] "Oscars: India Selects 'Liar's Dice' for Foreign-Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 September 2014.

[62ndfinal-4] "62nd National Film Awards for 2014 (Press Release)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals . 24 February 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.

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