Vishesh Films

Vishesh Films

Industry	Motion pictures
Founded	in 1986 named after Vishesh Bhatt son of Mukesh Bhatt.
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Key people	Mahesh Bhatt Mukesh Bhatt
Products	Motion pictures
Owner	Mahesh Bhatt Mukesh Bhatt
Website	www.visheshfilms.com

Vishesh Films is an Indian film producing company^[1] owned by brothers, Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt. Mahesh is also a member of the advisory board of U.S. nonprofit TeachAIDS. Vishesh Films is one of the most successful Indian film production houses. The production company is named after Vishesh Bhatt, the son of Mukesh Bhatt.

Mahesh Bhatt and early Vishesh Films

In 1987 Mahesh Bhatt turned producer when he set up his own banner, "Vishesh Films", with his brother Mukesh Bhatt. He went on to become one of the most recognised directors of the Indian film industry in the coming decade, giving both serious productions – like Daddy (1989), launching his daughter Pooja Bhatt as a movie actress, and Swayam (1991) — as well as commercial romantic hits like Awaargi (1990), Aashiqui (1990) and Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991), in which he cast Pooja with actor Aamir Khan. He next directed Sadak (1991) which remains his highest grossing work to date either directed or produced under his Vishesh Films. He won critical acclaim for Sir (1993), which saw Pooja Bhatt acting with Naseeruddin Shah along with the hit Gumraah and Criminal (1994). In 1994 he won the National Film Award - Special Jury Award for Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993).

In 1995 he moved to television, then a newly opening medium in India. He made two TV series in 1995: the English language A Mouthful of Sky written by Ashok Banker and the popular Hindi language serial Swabhimaan scripted by writer Shobha De. He directed another TV series, Kabhie Kabhie, in 1997 which was written by Anurag Kashyap.

Following this, he directed dramas like Dastak (1996), the debut film of Miss Universe 1994-turned-actress Sushmita Sen, and Tamanna (1997), and tried his hand at comedy with Duplicate in 1998. Zakhm (1998) was returned to the censor board because of right-wing pressure critical of its references to the Mumbai riots of 1993.

His last film as director was Kartoos (1999). Thereafter, Bhatt retired a director and took to screenwriting, churning out stories and screenplays for over twenty films, many of which were box-office successes, like Dushman, Raaz, Murder (2004), Gangster (2006), Woh Lamhe (2006), Murder 2(2011), Jism 2(2012) and Murder 3(2013) the devil fighting(2016) no title2016) cont;9023430340

Recent phase

Vishesh Films is known for producing small budget commercially successful films.^[2] They produced thrillers like Raaz, Jism, Murder and Gangster all of which were major commercial successes. They further produced Zeher, Awarapan and Jannat. While the first two were moderate successes, the latter emerged a Super Hit. They den began producing quasi sequels and have given the maximum number of franchises to Indian Cinema.^[3] First of them was Raaz – The Mystery Continues which was a hit movie venture. Then came Murder 2 which did phenomenal business and was eventually declared a 'blockbuster'. It was followed by Jannat 2 and Jism 2, which were commercial successes. They produced Raaz 3 which made more than ₹ 100 million on its opening day and was a 'Super Hit'. It was followed by Murder 3 which was a profitable venture . Their latest release was Aashiqui 2 which created history by earning more than ₹ 1 billion and was declared a 'blockbuster'. It emerged as the best trending film of the century after 3 Idiots.

Films distributed under Vishesh Films

• Ya Rab (2014) acclaimed film starring Ajaz Khan of Bigg Boss 7 fame.
• Jism 2 (2012) film starring Sunny leone, Arunoday Singh and Randeep Hooda.

Filmography

The following is a list of films produced under the banner Vishesh Films India PVT. LTD. of Mahesh Bhatt & Mukesh Bhatt

Timeline 1986-2000

Release date			Title	CBFC rating	Director	Writer	Composer	Lyricist	Cast
1988	May	20	Kabzaa		Mahesh Bhatt	Salim Khan	Rajesh Roshan		Amrita Singh Raj Babbar Sanjay Dutt
1990	July	13	Jurm				Rajesh Roshan	Indeevar Payam Sayeedi	Meenakshi Sheshadri Sangeeta Bijlani Vinod Khanna
	August	17	Aashiqui			Akash Khurana Robin Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer, Rani Malik & Madan Pal	Rahul Roy Anu Agarwal Deepak Tijori
1991	July	3	Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin			Robin Bhatt Sharad Joshi	Nadeem-Shravan	Faiz Anwar	Aamir Khan Anupam Kher Pooja Bhatt Tiku Talsania
	December	3	Sadak			Robin Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan		Pooja Bhatt Sanjay Dutt
1992	September	18	Junoon			Robin Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan		Avinash Wadhawan Pooja Bhatt Rahul Roy
1993			Jaanam		Vikram Bhatt		Anu Malik		Paresh Rawal Pooja Bhatt Rahul Roy
	July	9	Sir		Mahesh Bhatt	Jay Dixit	Anu Malik		Atul Agnihotri Naseeruddin Shah Pooja Bhatt
	December	17	Tadipaar		Mahesh Bhatt		Nadeem-Shravan		Anupam Kher Gulshan Grover Juhi Chawla Mithun Chakraborty Pooja Bhatt
1994	August	19	Naaraaz		Mahesh Bhatt	Jay Dixit	Anu Malik	Dev Kohli Maya Govind Qateel Shifai Rahat Indori Zameer Qazmi	Atul Agnihotri Gulshan Grover Mithun Chakraborty Pooja Bhatt Sonali Bendre
1995	March	17	Naajayaz		Mahesh Bhatt	Jay Dixit	Anu Malik		Ajay Devgn Juhi Chawla Naseeruddin Shah
	July	21	Criminal		Mahesh Bhatt		M. M. Keeravani		Manisha Koirala Nagarjuna Akkineni Ramya Krishnan
1996	June	28	Fareb		Vikram Bhatt	Iqbal Durrani	Jatin Lalit		Kundan singh Milind Gunaji Suman Ranganathan
	November	29	Dastak		Mahesh Bhatt	Vikram Bhatt	Rajesh Roshan		Bhavna Datta Manoj Bajpai Mukul Dev Sharad Kapoor Sushmita Sen Tiku Talsania Vishwajeet Pradhan
1998	May	29	Dushman		Tanuja Chandra	Sachin Bhowmick	Aadesh Shrivastava Uttam Singh		Ashutosh Rana Kajol Sanjay Dutt
	June	19	Ghulam		Vikram Bhatt	Jatin-Lalit	Anjum Rajabali	Indeevar, Nitin Raikwar, Sameer, Vinod Mahendra	Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Deepak Tijori, Sharat Saxena Pooja Bhatt
1999	September	3	Sangharsh		Tanuja Chandra	Girish Dhamija Mahesh Bhatt	Jatin-Lalit		Akshay Kumar Ashutosh Rana Preity Zinta

Timeline 2001-Current

Release date			Title	CBFC rating	Director	Writer	Composer	Lyricist	Cast
2001	February	2	Kasoor		Vikram Bhatt	Girish Dhamija Mahesh Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer	Aftab Shivdasani Apurva Agnihotri Ashutosh Rana Divya Dutta Irrfan Khan Lisa Ray
	November	16	Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar		Tanuja Chandra	Mahesh Bhatt	Daboo Malik Sajid-Wajid		Ameesha Patel Gulshan Grover Jimmy Shergill Nafisa Ali
2002	February	2	Raaz		Vikram Bhatt	Girish Dhamija Mahesh Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer	Ashutosh Rana Bipasha Basu Dino Morea Malini Sharma
	September	16	Gunaah		Amol Shetge	Mahesh Bhatt	Anand Raj Anand Sajid-Wajid		Bipasha Basu Dino Morea Irrfan Khan
2003	July	4	Saaya		Anurag Basu	Amol Shetge	Anu Malik M. M. Keeravani		John Abraham Mahima Chaudhry Tara Sharma
	August	15	Footpath		Vikram Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	Himesh Reshammiya Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer	Aftab Shivdasani Bipasha Basu Emraan Hashmi Rahul Dev
	October	24	Inteha		Vikram Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	Anu Malik		Ashmit Patel Nauheed Cyrusi Vidya Malvade
2004	January	30	Paap		Pooja Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	Anu Malik Faizi Music Mushrooms		John Abraham Udita Goswami Gulshan Grover
	April	2	Murder		Anurag Basu	Anurag Basu	Anu Malik	Rahat Indori Sayeed Quadri	Ashmit Patel Emraan Hashmi Mallika Sherawat
2005			Film Star		Tanuja Chandra				Mahima Chaudhry Priyanshu Chatterjee Vasundhara Das
	March	25	Zeher		Mohit Suri	Mahesh Bhatt	Anu Malik Roop Kumar Rathod	Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Sameer Kochhar Shamita Shetty Udita Goswami jimit jayswal
	May	20	Nazar		Soni Razdan	Mahesh Bhatt	Anu Malik		Aly Khan Ashmit Patel Meera Rupak Mann
	December	9	Kalyug		Mohit Suri	Mohit Suri	Anu Malik	Sayeed Quadri	Amrita Singh Emraan Hashmi Kunal Khemu
2006	February	17	Aisa Kyun Hota Hai		Ajay Kanchan				Amit Gopi Bhalla Rati Agnihotri
	April	28	Gangster		Anurag Basu	Mahesh Bhatt	Pritam	Mayur Puri Neelesh Misra Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Kangana Ranaut Shiney Ahuja
	July	21	The Killer		Hasnain Hydrabadwala Raksha Mistry		Sajid-Wajid	Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Irfan Khan Nisha Kothari
	September	29	Woh Lamhe		Mohit Suri	Mahesh Bhatt	Pritam	Sayeed Quadri	Kangana Ranaut Shiney Ahuja
2007	June	29	Awarapan		Mohit Suri	Shagufta Rafique	Pritam	Asif Ali Baig Annie Khalid Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Mrinalini Sharma Shriya Saran
	August	31	Dhokha		Pooja Bhatt	Shagufta Rafique	M. M. Keeravani		Ashutosh Rana Aushima Sawhney Muzammil Ibrahim Tulip Joshi
	December	28	Showbiz		Raju Khan	Shagufta Rafique	Lalit Pandit		Gulshan Grover Mrinalini Sharma Sushant Singh
2008	May	16	Jannat		Kunal Deshmukh	Vishesh Bhatt	Pritam	Kamran Ahmed Neelesh Misra Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Javed Sheikh Sonal Chauhan Sameer Kochhar Vishal Malhotra
2009			Suicide Bomber		Anurag Basu
	January	23	Raaz – The Mystery Continues		Mohit Suri	Shagufta Rafique	Gourov Dasgupta Pranay M Rijia Raju Singh Sharib Sabri Toshi Sabri	Kumaar Sayeed Quadri	Adhyayan Suman Emraan Hashmi Kangana Ranaut
	July	17	Jashnn		Hasnain Hyderabadwala Raksha Mistry		Nouman Javaid Sandesh Shandilya Sharib Sabri Toshi Sabri	Kumaar Neelesh Misra Nouman Javaid	Adhyayan Suman Anjana Sukhani Humayun Saeed Shahana Goswami
	November	13	Tum Mile		Kunal Deshmukh		Pritam	Kumaar Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Soha Ali Khan
2010	October	8	Crook		Mohit Suri	Ankur Tewari	Pritam	Kumaar	Arjan Bajwa Emraan Hashmi Neha Sharma
2011	July	8	Murder 2		Mohit Suri	Mahesh Bhatt Shagufta Rafique	Harshit Saxena Mithoon Sangeet Haldipur Siddharth Haldipur	Kumaar Mithoon Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Jacqueline Fernandez Prashant Narayanan Sudhanshu Pandey
2012	March	30	Blood Money		Vishal Mahadkar	Upendra Sidhye	Jeet Ganguly Pranay M Rijia Sangeet Haldipur Siddharth Haldipur	Kumaar Sayeed Quadri	Amrita Puri Kunal Khemu
	May	4	Jannat 2		Kunal Deshmukh	Shagufta Rafique	Pritam	Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Esha Gupta Randeep Hooda
	September	7	Raaz 3		Vikram Bhatt	Shagufta Rafique	Jeet Ganguly Mithoon Rashid		Bipasha Basu Emraan Hashmi Esha Gupta
2013	February	15	Murder 3		Vishesh Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	Pritam Roxen (band)	Sayeed Quadri	Randeep Hooda Aditi Rao Hydari Sara Loren
	May	10	Aashiqui 2		Mohit Suri	Shagufta Rafique	Jeet Ganguly Mithoon Ankit Tiwari		Aditya Roy Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor
2014	May	30	CityLights		Kundan singh Gau		Jeet Ganguly		Patraleka Rajkummar Rao
2015	January	30	Khamoshiyan		Karan Darra		Jeet Ganguly Bobby-Imran Ankit Tiwari Naved Zafar		Sapna Pabbi Ali Fazal
2015	April	17	Mr. X		Vikram Bhatt		Jeet Ganguly Ankit Tiwari		Emraan Hashmi Amyra Dastur

Top-grossing films

Rank	Name	Year	Domestic Gross	Starring
1	Aashiqui 2	2013	₹854.0 million (US$13 million)	Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor
2	Raaz 3	2012	₹729.0 million (US$11 million)	Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Bipasha Basu
3	Murder 2	2011	₹500.3 million (US$7.4 million)	Emraan Hashmi, Jacqueline Fernandez
4	Jannat 2	2012	₹420 million (US$6.2 million)	Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Randeep Hooda
5	Jism 2	2012	₹349.7 million (US$5.2 million)	Sunny Leone, Randeep Hooda, Arunoday Singh

References

1. Vishesh Films at Bollywood Hungama
2. Regular coverage of Vishesh Films in The Times of India
3. "Vishesh Films, Fox Star Studios announce 3 film deal" (IBN Live, October 24, 2013)

External links

• Vishesh Films at the Internet Movie Database