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Prime Focus Limited (PFL) is an independent global media services company, founded in 1997 by Namit Malhotra and co-founders Merzin Tavaria, Prakash Kurup, and Huzefa Lokhandwala. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, PFL has two subsidiary companies – Prime Focus World and Prime Focus Technologies.

The company employs over 5,500 professionals in 16 cities across 4 continents and 7 time zones. .

History
In 1995 Namit Malhotra and co-founders Merzin Tavaria, Prakash Kurup and Huzefa Lokhandwala founded a start-up company called Video Workshop, providing post-production services to the Indian television industry. In 1997 the company was re-launched under the name ‘Prime Focus’.

The Prime Focus journey has been defined by a series of firsts in the Indian post-production market: the company provided India's first high-end finishing system in 1997; the first film scanning and recording system in 2001; the first Spirit Datacine in 2003; and the first Motion Control rig in 2004. A visual effects department soon followed, and Prime Focus began offering CG VFX to the industry in India.

Association
Prime Focus started its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm, the Naresh Malhotra Foundation, in 2014. The foundation was set up to focus on social issues in India such as education and healthcare, and to engage with prominent NGOs.