Shemaroo Entertainment’s Founder Buddhichand Maroo Felicitated with GIFA Golden Award
by Shrutee K/DNS
Mumbai, 26th
December 2018: Founder of
Shemaroo Entertainment Limited, Mr. Buddhichand Maroo was recently felicitated
with the GIFA Golden Award at the 3rd edition of Gujarati Iconic Film
Awards (GIFA) 2018 in Ahmedabad. Mr. Maroo has contributed significantly towards
the growth of the entertainment industry and established a well-known company,
Shemaroo Entertainment, which is now in its 55th year of existence and
has practically become a household name in India.
In 1962, at a young age of 22, Buddhichand Maroo started a book
circulating library in the year under the name of Shemaroo. In 1979, Shemaroo
set up India’s first video rental business and then forayed into distribution
of content through the home video segment in 1987. The clientele acquired by
Mr. Buddhichand Maroo was the likes of Tata’s, Birla’s, Ambani’s and many
theatre and Bollywood personalities. The company has now become a national
brand and is a leading Indian content power house with a global reach,
delivering premium content experiences in more than 30 countries.
Based out of Mumbai, Mr. Maroo is into a lot of social work and
occasionally travels to his home town of Kutch to oversee the development. GIFA
2018 awarded Mr. Buddhichand Maroo, keeping in mind all the work and efforts he
had put through for the Gujarati Film Industry. Gujarati Iconic Film Awards
2018 is a unique initiative by Arvietal Entertainment to promote Gujarati Film
Industry based on various parameters. Gujarati Film Industry informally
referred as Dhollywood, is one of the major regional and vernacular film
industry of Cinema of India associated with Gujarati language.
About Shemaroo
Shemaroo Entertainment Limited is a leading
global content power house, which has played a pioneering role in the arena of
content ownership, aggregation and distribution. Shemaroo has been a core part
of the Bollywood Industry and has managed to maintain many relationships with
the best production houses over the years. With a diverse and growing
collection of over 3700 titles, Shemaroo has offered premium content and
services to customers in more than 30 countries, across several Indian
languages. With the brand in existence for over five decades, Shemaroo
continues to redefine itself to respond to the disrupting consumer environment,
by delivering content across age groups in genres such as movies, comedy,
devotional and kids.
The company’s innate ability to sense the
pulse of what an audience will consume, has not only helped it become a trusted
partner to few of the biggest media platforms such as YouTube, Hotstar, Star
Gold, Zee Cinema, Vodafone, Reliance Jio, Tata Sky, Apple iTunes, Etisalat, but
has also helped Shemaroo create entertainment experiences, in ways never
thought of. Today, Shemaroo has evolved to be an entrenched player in the
digital ecosystem. The entry into the Limca book of records with
#FilmiGaaneAntakshri on Twitter is a proof of Shemaroo staying true to its
‘digital first’ vision
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