Sandeep Singh (producer)

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Sandeep Singh
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Singh in 2015
Born2 September 1981 [1]
NationalityIndian
Other namesSandeep Singh
Occupation Film producer Film Director
Years active2001–present
OrganizationLegend Studios
Known for Mary Kom
Sarbjit
Bhoomi
PM Narendra Modi

Sandeep Singh is an Indian film producer who works in Hindi films. He started his career as a journalist and later joined Bhansali Productions as the CEO in 2011. He founded the film production company Legend Studios in 2015. Singh is known for producing movies like Mary Kom, Aligarh, Sarabjit , Bhoomi, PM Narendra Modi, and Jhund .

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Career

Singh began his career in 2001 with Times Group as an entertainment journalist and wrote columns and articles for both Bombay Times and Navbharat Times. During this time The Times Group started their own radio channel Radio Mirchi and Sandeep got his first opportunity to be a show producer. He was later appointed as the entertainment head at Radio Mirchi. He joined Radio City in 2005 as entertainment head and launched several shows. He moved into BIG FM as national entertainment head in 2007. [2]

He produced his first independent show Dancing Queen in 2008 on Colors Channel with SOL Entertainment. [2]

He joined Sanjay Leela Bhansali's production house Bhansali Productions as CEO in 2011. [3] Whilst at Bhansali Productions he co-produced films Rowdy Rathore , Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi , Ram Leela, Mary Kom and a television series on Star Plus called Saraswatichandra (2013).

In 2015, he launched himself as an independent producer with the critically acclaimed film Aligarh , [4] Sarbjit in 2016, [5] Bhoomi in 2017, [6] the biographical film PM Narendra Modi in 2019 [7] and Jhund . [8] [9]

He acquired the rights to the biography of business tycoon Subrata Roy in July 2021. [10] The same year, he also announced three films with a biography film titled Swatantra Veer Savarkar on the life of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. [11] [12] In addition, he is producing a women-centric film titled White directed by Mahesh Manjrekar [13] who is also directing a film on Nathuram Godse titled as Godse, [14] He had also announced a film titled Bal Shivaji directed by Ravi Jadhav, [15] Sandeep made his directorial debut [16] with Safed starring Abhay Verma and Meera Chopra in lead roles. The film’s poster was launched by A. R. Rahman in cannes. [17]

Filmography

Co-producer

YearFilm
2012 Rowdy Rathore
Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi
2013 Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
2014 Mary Kom
2015 Gabbar Is Back

Producer

YearFilm
2016 Aligarh
Sarbjit
2017 Bhoomi
2019 PM Narendra Modi [7]
2022 Jhund [18]
2024 Main Atal Hoon
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar

Director

YearFilm
2023 Safed [19]

Television

YearTV ShowProducer/Co-producer
2008 Dancing Queen Producer
2013 Saraswatichandra Co-producer

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