| Type | Film distribution, production |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Akkineni Manohar Prasad Akkineni Anand Prasad |
| Website | www.gemini360.in [www.geminivfx.com] |
Gemini Film Circuit is a film distribution and production studio unit in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Career
The company was founded by Ravi Shankar Prasad who also owned Anand Cine Services and it went on to produce and distribute many successful Tamil films including the remakes of Rajkumar Hirani films like Vasool Raja MBBS, Shankar Dada MBBS, Shankar Dada Zindabad & Nanban.[lower-alpha 1] However the failure of Mani Ratnam's Kadal (2013) affected company's finances after the venture became a surprise failure at the box office, and distributors of Kadal wanted compensation before Madha Gaja Raja was released.[1][2] The company made its comeback co-producing and distributing the Malayalam film Unda (2019).
Filmography
As producer
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Released
| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Language | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Vasool Raja MBBS | Saran | Kamal Haasan, Prabhu, Sneha, Prakash Raj, Crazy Mohan, Nagesh, Rohini Hattangadi | Tamil | A remake of Rajkumar Hirani's Munna Bhai M. B. B. S. (2003) |
| Shankar Dada MBBS | Jayanth C. Paranjee | Chiranjeevi, Srikanth, Sonali Bendre, Paresh Rawal, Surya Bhagwandas, Girish Karnad, Venniradai Nirmala | Telugu | ||
| 2006 | Shankar Dada Zindabad | Prabhu Deva | Chiranjeevi, Srikanth, Karishma Kotak, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Sayaji Shinde | A remake of Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) | |
| 2010 | Kutty | Mithran Jawahar | Dhanush, Shriya Saran, Sameer Dattani | Tamil | |
| 2011 | Mayakkam Enna | Selvaraghavan | Dhanush, Richa Gangopadhyay | Tamil | |
| 2012 | Nanban | S. Shankar | Vijay, Jeeva, Srikanth, Ileana D'Cruz, Sathyaraj, Sathyan | Tamil | A remake of Rajkumar Hirani's 3 Idiots (2009) |
| Podaa Podi | Vignesh Shivan | Silambarasan, Varalaxmi | Tamil | ||
| 2013 | Kadal | Mani Ratnam | Gautham Karthik, Thulasi Nair, Arjun Sarja, Arvind Swamy, Lakshmi Manchu | Tamil | |
| 2019 | Unda | Khalid Rahman | Mammootty | Malayalam |
As distributor
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Released
Notes
- ↑ Vasool Raja MBBS starring Kamal Haasan and Prabhu was the only Tamil film of the Munna Bhai series as only Vasool Raja MBBS was remade whereas both the films of the series (Munna Bhai M. B. B. S. and Lage Raho Munna Bhai) were remade as Shankar Dada MBBS and Shankar Dada Zindabad respectively.
References
- ↑ "Madha Gaja Raja is likely to hit the screens on 11th December". Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ↑ "Gemini Film MD Ravi Shankar Prasad found dead in Andhra". The Times of India.
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