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Prashant Shah | |
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Prashant Shah is a film producer based in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and the UK. He is the CEO and founder of Bollywood Hollywood Production Inc., a film and television production company that produces and shoots Bollywood movies in the UK, India, Canada, United States and South America. His latest films as a Producer titled Jungle Cry. [1]
Prashant Shah (PS) first worked in a variety of industries including global marketing and business development in electronics. With education in computer science PS had IT consulting business related to biometric and security software applications. His experiences include F&B, healthcare staffing solutions.
In June 2013, Shah joined Benaroya Pictures as VP and head of physical production. [2] By 2018, he left Benaroya Pictures and launched Bollywood Hollywood Production, a media company that does the acquisition, development and production of feature films in both the Hindi and English language. [3]
PS has more than 30 feature films & TV shows including "My Name is Khan, "Padman", "ZERO", "Roadies" and new releasing home production feature film "Jungle Cry" to his credits.
Shah's films include: [4]
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