Shital Bhatia

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Shital Bhatia
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Shital Bhatia

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NationalityIndian
OccupationFilm Producer
Organization(s)Friday Filmworks, Friday Storytellers & Bootroom Sports Media LLP

Shital Bhatia is an Indian film producer and co-founder of Friday Filmworks, [1] best known for his movies like A Wednesday! (2008), Special 26 (2013), Baby (2015), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), Rustom (2016) and Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017).

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Shital Bhatia along with Anil Ambani's Reliance Entertainment have a joint venture named Plan C Studios.

Early life and education

Shital Bhatia was born and brought up in Mumbai. He graduated from Mithibai College with a degree in Bachelors of Commerce. Later on, he went on to do a diploma in Fashion Designing and graduated in the year 1995.

Career

In his early career, Shital started working as a costume/fashion designer for television from the year 1994 and continued working in the same field till 2000.

Very soon, Shital along with his colleague Neeraj Pandey, went on to start a production company called 'Quarter Inch Productions' which produced television shows and television films, Ittefaq being the most popular. Simultaneously, Shital also handled the production of foreign projects for a while in between.

Eventually in 2008, Shital and Neeraj Pandey formed their own production house named Friday Filmworks. Friday Filmworks produced movies like A Wednesday!, Taryanche Bait, Baby (2015 Hindi film), Special 26, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Aiyaary, Naam Shabana, Rustom, Operation Romeo and upcoming movie Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha [2] .

Shital Bhatia co-founded Friday Storytellers with his business partner Neeraj Pandey in 2019, to produce content for OTT and digital streaming. [3] Under Friday Storytellers, Shital Bhatia produced Special Ops, Special Ops 1.5, Khakee: The Bihar Chapter, Secrets of Sinauli, Secrets of the Kohinoor, Secrets of the Buddha Relics, Kaun Pravin Tambe?, Bandon Mein Tha Dum!, Hack: Crimes Online, and upcoming Hindi digital film Sikandar Ka Muqaddar [4] as well as web series 'Khakee: The Bengal Chapter' (Netflix) & 'Special OPS 2' (Disney+ Hotstar).

He also produced OUCH, [5] [6] a short film by Neeraj Pandey starring Manoj Bajpayee and Pooja Chopra and Ouch 2 starring Nidhi Bisht, Shefali Jariwala, Sharman Joshi.

Shital Bhatia also co-founded Bootroom Sports Media LLP along with his business partners Neeraj Pandey and Sudip Tewari in March 2022.

Awards

Filmography

YearFilmNetwork
2008 A Wednesday
2011 Taryanche Bait
2013 Special 26
2014 The Royal Bengal Tiger
Total Siyapaa
2015 Baby
2016 Rustom
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Saat Uchakkey
Ouch (Short Film) YouTube
2017 Toilet: Ek Prem Katha
Naam Shabana
2018 Aiyaary
2022 Kaun Pravin Tambe? Disney+ Hotstar
Operation Romeo
Vikram Vedha
Saatam Aatham
2023Ouch 2 (Short Film) [7] YouTube
2024 Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha [8]
TBA Sikandar Ka Muqaddar [9] Netflix

Series

YearSeriesNetworkOther notes
2020 Special OPS Disney+ Hotstar [10]
2021 Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story Disney+ Hotstar [11]
2022 Khakee: The Bihar Chapter Netflix
2023Hack: Crimes Online Amazon MiniTV
2023 The Freelancer Disney+ Hotstar
2024Khakee: The Bengal Chapter Netflix Coming Soon
2024Special OPS 2 Disney+ Hotstar Coming Soon

Documentary

YearSeriesNetwork
2021Secrets of Sinauli: Discovery of the Century Discovery+
2022Bandon Mein Tha Dum! [12] Jio Cinema
2022Secrets of the Koh-i-noor Discovery+
2024Secrets of the Buddha Relics [13] Discovery+

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