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Venus Worldwide Entertainment Pvt.Ltd is one of the market leaders in the entertainment industry. Though the core business till date still remains as acquisition of Music Rights of Super hit Films, which consists an envious Music library covering more than 20,000 Audio Full tracks in multiple languages and various Genres, but they have even diversified their business by entering into Film Production and Distribution.

Venus has even Produced and Distributed some of the Blockbuster movies over years, which has created a landmark in the industry, their produced movies have been the launch pad for Superstars of Bollywood today like none other than king khan of Bollywood “Shahrukh Khan” and Super talented “Kajol” from Baazigar, “Akshay Kumar” from “Khiladi” popularly known as “Khiladi Kumar” now and Gorgeous “Shilpa Shetty” from “Dhadkan” Venus is now back in action with their upcoming movie “ Kis Kis Ko Pyaar Karu” which is also a debut film and a launch pad again for the Comedy King “ Kapil Sharma” of “Comedy Nights with Kapil”

History
Promoted by two Jain brothers, Mr. Ganesh Jain and Mr. Ratan Jain, Venus initially, started and commenced the business of manufacturing Audio Cassettes during the early 80's under the company name of Venus Records & Tapes Manufacturing Company. Later, after few years, on 23rd September 1988, Venus Records & Tapes Private Limited was incorporated as a platform, with a futuristic view to enter into an Entertainment business at a corporate level.Thereafter, the company soon plunged into different arenas of Entertainment business besides Music, like Film Production, Film Distribution – Overseas and Satellite & Film Presentation.With effect from 18th April 2011, the company was renamed as Venus Worldwide Entertainment Private Limited with a larger perspective to grow into Digital Space and continue entertaining Global Audiences.

Promoters and Management
Two Important Pillars of Venus

Ganesh Jain: Chairman and Managing Director Mr. Ganesh Jain, the eldest Jain among the seven brothers, is one of the proud Directors, Founders & Promoters of the Venus Group. Mr Ganesh Jain has a 30 years of rich experience in acquisition and exploitation of all kinds of copyrights in respect of Movies and Music. He has a great passion for Hindi music and cinema. He looks after the music arm of Venus and his leadership is unquestionable. What better instance than the decision to acquire the Music Rights of the Bollywood movie “Mohra” in 1994, much against the wishes of the other Directors on board, which subsequently emerged as a huge success.

He is the Finance Controller of the company for more than two decades. Ganeshji is the Chairman of The Indian Music Industry (IMI) and PPL, in fact, the dynamic Veteran is the only Chairman to be re-elected consecutively (i.e. in 2012 & for further period from 2013 to 2015). He is also a Pro-active Board member and office bearer in IPRS, and also the president of Indian Film Exporters Association and other institutions related to Movies & Music industry. He always believed in standout performances and he is now known for waving the flag of Venus Worldwide Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

Ratan Jain : Director



The light-eyed Ratan Jain, willowy figure often captured on candid camera is a renowned producer, maintaining a low profile, away from the limelight.

Ratan Jain, who founded Music Business 3 decades ago, i.e. at the primary stage of present Indian Music Industry, is now the creative brain in visualizing and deciding the final set-up and broad contours of the film production at its conceptual stage. Ratan Jain was the creative brain behind Venus venturing into Film Production arena through 1992 Bollywood suspense thriller film “Khiladi” & had the foresight to identify the huge potential in the current Mega star ‘Akshay Kumar’, who is now well known as “ Khiladi Kumar ”after the Success of this  Film.

In his subsequent takeoff, again in the thriller genre, 1993 Blockbuster film “Baazigar”, offered the launch –pad for Shahrukh Khan as a sole lead actor. Both the Blockbusters were in association with the Director duo Abbas Mastan, thus making them well known in the action & thriller genres. Subsequently in 2000, Ratanji joined hands with Director Dharmesh Darshan for a romantic-drama “Dhadkan”, which went on to become one of Bollywood’s most popular love stories & people are crazy and still in love with the music of Dhadkan.

Venus Music Baron and owner of Venus Movies, Ratan Jain, is a symbol of dedication, devotion and determination, with an exceptional savor for Music, which has throughout reflected in his Productions, Khiladi (1992 ), Baazigar (1993), Dhadkan (2000), to name a few, which has turned out to be Musical Blockbusters as well.Ratanji has actively worked for the causes of the film industry & was the President of Association of Motion Pictures & TV Programme Producers (AMPTPP) during the period 2009 – 2011 & currently in the Governing Council.

Other Important Key People

Umed Jain: Board member

Umed Jain, one of the Board Members, with a vast experience of 25 years in Marketing of Audio & Video Products, is heading the Film production at an execution stage since 1991.

Ramesh Jain: Director

Ramesh Jain, one of the Company Directors, with a vast experience of 25 years in Marketing of Audio & Video Products, is currently handling Treasury of the company for more than a decade now.

Bhawar Jain: Director

Bhawar Jain, one of the Company Directors, having a rich experience of 25 years in the music Industry, and is currently handling expansion & control of countrywide market network of the company, for its Physical Products like CD’s, DVD’s, VCD’s, Mp3 Discs etc

Champak Jain: Director

Champak Jain, one of the Company Directors, with a deep Sense of creating music for more than 2 decades, is in-charge of Creation and Acquisition, Publicity and Promotion of Audio/Video products of various Movies and non-film albums.

Girish Jain: Board member – Digital head

Girish Jain, one of the Board Members, with a wide experience in music industry for more than 2 decades now, is effectively heading the Company’s Music Division & the rapidly growing digital format of music, being the in-charge of Production, Distribution & Promotion of the Company’s entire Audio & Video library in India and abroad on various digital platforms.

G.F Kothari: Chartered Accountant

G. F. Kothari, one of the Board Members, is a Chartered Accountant (CA), with 30 years experience in respect of Finance. Legal and Taxation matters, co-coordinating all the above matters of the company since its inception.

Munnavar Shaikh: General Manager

Munnavar Shaikh is working with the Group for the last 25years, as a General Manager, in the Artist and Repertoire Department, He is executing the initiatives taken by Champak Jain, in the creation and acquisition of Music Copyrights.

Sanchitta Chatterjee : Executive Producer

Sanchita Chatterjee, is working with the group for almost 15 years now, as an Executive Producer, assisting Ratan Jain in co-coordinating & scheduling with various Celebrities, i.e. Directors, Actors, Actresses, Music Composers, Singers, Lyricists etc..., for all the Home Productions, proficiently handling & supervising the whole gambit of Production & post Production work.

Envious Music library by Venus:
Venus owns and controls copyrights of an envious and huge catalogue in Indian Films and music, which consists of Copyrights of Music for more than 700+ Hindi and Regional films and more than 3000 basic titles. This golden repertoire consists of the variety of Bollywood Films Music, Regional, Pops, Classical, Ghazals, Qawalis, Devotionals, Instrumentals, Dialogues, Rhymes, Jokes etc.

Bollywood:
Music Rights of Major releases in Bollywood Music segment includes Super Hit Block buster Films like 'Shahenshah', 'Dilwale', 'Khudgarz', 'Saajan’, ‘Deewana’,‘Baazigar’, 'Border', 'Dil Se', 'Pukar', ‘Mohra', ’Josh', ‘Dhadkan’, 'Baadshah', 'Humraaz', 'Qayamat’ 'Yuva’ and ‘Tezz’. Many of these Films created new record sales in Indian Music Industry. Songs from these evergreen Bollywood albums are going great and loved by Audiences Worldwide.

Regional:
It also has Music Rights for various Indian Regional Languages Films, Devotional and other genres in 32+ Indian languages which includes Bhojpuri, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Asamese and others.

Bhojpuri Music  Venus has fortified its catalogue of Bhojpuri Music in the recent years & has carved its niche with a variety of Bhojpuri Music, including music from Super Hit Bhojpuri Movies like ‘Sajanwa Bairi Bhaile Hamar’ (1987), ‘Pratigya’ (2008), ‘Vidhata’ (2008), ‘Deewana’ (2009), ‘Ego Chumma De Da Rajaji’ (2008) amongst others, star studded with Ravi Kishen, Dinesh Lal Yadav (Nirahua), Pawan Singh, to name a few.

Tamil Music  Venus had ventured into an acquisition spree of Tamil Music from 2010 -2012. Some of the Super Stars (Kamal Hasan, Simbu, Vijay, Kartik, Dhanush, R Madhvan, Trisha, Asin, Sneha Ulhaal, etc.) studded movies which includes ‘Kaavalan’ (Bodyguard) (2011), ‘Siruthai’ (2011). ‘Vaanam’ (2011), ‘Seedan’ (2011), ‘Peasu’ (2011), ‘Man Madan Ambu’ (2010) are the predominant ones here.

Gujarati Music  Venus had acquired music Rights of Super Hit Gujarati Films and Folk Titles which includes ‘Dharti No Chhedo Ghar’, ‘Janamdaata‘,‘ Vahuraani ‘,‘Maa Na Saugandh’, ‘ Baba Ramsaa Peer’ to name a Few ..

Devotional:
It also has Music Rights Owned – Non Film Music- Devotional Music in Hindi & Other Indian Regional Languages: Venus Devotional and spiritual repertoire has more than 2500 basic titles in devotional music, covering almost all of Indian deities, Gods, Goddess, saints etc. almost in all Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Bengali, Telugu, Oriya, Muslim Devotional and so on.

Non Films :
In Non-Films Music segment its achievement in selling highest ever number of more than 10m cassettes for title ‘Tum To Thahare Pardesi’ of Altaf Raja, found entry in ‘Limca Books of World Records’ and is a feather in Venus’s cap which is un-parallel till this date. Venus’s repertoire includes a precious treasure from eminent and immortal artists like Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Jagjit Singh, Pankaj Udhas, Anup Jalota, Hari Om Sharan, Hariharan, Asha Bhosle, Pt. Jasraj, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasya, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, Zakir Hussain, Gulam Ali, Mehendi Hasan, Shridhar Phadke, Talat Aziz, Suresh Wadkar, '''Smt. Shobha Gurtu, Altaf Raja, Gurdas Maan''' and an endless list of most popular and super hit tracks.

Home Productions Movies
Venus’s dominant presence in film production is known by many Blockbuster and super hit home production movies on Indian Silver Screen to its credit. In all, Films produced by ‘VENUS’ and buzzing as SUPER-HITS on Box-office were ‘Khiladi’ (1991), ‘Baazigar’ (1993), ‘Dhadkan’ (2000), ‘Hungama’ (2003), 'Hulchul' (2004), 'Garam Masala' (2005), 'Main Hoon Na' (2006), 'De Dana Dan' (2009). Similarly, List of HIT FILMS produced by 'VENUS" include, ‘Main Khiladi Tu Anaadi’ (1994), ‘Akele Hum Akele Tum’ (1995), ‘Yes Boss’ (1996), 'Bandhan', ‘Baadshah’ (1999), 'Josh' (2000), ‘Humraaz’ (2002), 'Ajnabi' (2001), 'Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaye' (2000) 'Aap Ki Khatir' (2006). Negative Rights of the above films also remains with VENUS.

Movies Currently Under Production & in Pipeline includes acting debut of Kapil Sharma, The film is directed by Abbas-Mustan & Produced by Ratan Jain, Ganesh Jain, Abbas - Mustan under the banner Venus Records & Tapes Pvt. Ltd In Association with Abbas Mustan Films Production Pvt. Ltd. Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt is set to helm 'Dhadkan 2’.

Overseas Rights
'VENUS' is holding overseas rights, of 170+ Bollywood Films. The major releases in this segment are ‘Deewana’, ‘Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaye’, 'Dil Se’, ‘Deewana Mastana', ‘Rocky’, ‘Ajnabee’, ‘Aksar’, ‘Appu raja’, ‘Garv’, ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’ 'Shaurya’, ‘Just Married’, ‘Aetbaar’, ‘Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet’, and many others.

Negative Rights
Venus’s envious library has Negative Rights of various Movies, which includes ‘Suryavanshi’ (1992), ‘Humse Hai Muqabla’ (1994), ‘Aar Ya Paar’ (1997), ‘Aggar’ (1997), ‘Khauff’ (2000), ‘Ittefaq’ (2001), ‘Anamika’ (2008), and many others

Satellite Rights
'VENUS' holds the satellite rights of various movies such as 'Tezz' (2012), 'De Dana Dan' (2009), 'Garam Masala' (2005), 'Hungama' (2003), 'Humraaz' (2002) to name a few.

Internet Rights
"VENUS" has internet rights of 200+ Blockbuster Movies & those are exploited on different internet platforms which includes 'Rocky' (2006), 'Anamika' (2008), 'Hisss' (2010), 'Maan Gaye Mughal- E -Azam' (2008), 'Just Married' (2007), 'Aap Ki Khatir' (2006), 'Elaan' (2005), 'Aetbaar' (2004) to name a few.