Kishore Lulla is founder and chairman of Eros Innovation and the executive director of Eros Media World (formerly Eros International Plc), the first Indian media & entertainment company to be listed on

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and also the first to be delisted in 2021. His brother Sunil Lulla is the executive director at Eros International Media Limited, which is listed on the

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and was barred by the

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in June 2023. He is also chairman of Eros Investments, a holding company for his investments.

Early life

Lulla graduated with a bachelor's degree in arts from Mumbai University. He also attended the School of Business and Law at the Government Law College, Mumbai.

Career

Eros International

Lulla has held the position of director at Eros Media World Plc (formerly known as Eros International Plc) since 2005. He resigned in 2022 as the Executive Director of Eros International Media Limited since the 28 September 2009, the company listed in BSE as well as NSE stock exchanges. As

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of the Eros Group Kishore, started working for Eros when he was 16. He teamed with his father and went to UK. He has expanded and popularized

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films in U.K. U.S. and the Middle East and entered newer markets like Latin America, South Korea and America under Lulla Bollywood films.

Eros Investments

Eros Investments has recently established collaborations with an artificial intelligence firm, Stability.ai. Additionally, they have revealed plans to develop blockchain enterprises in Dubai and have announced a strategic partnership with the

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Authority. Kishore's daughter, Ridhima Lulla, launched a virtual universe called Immerso. Eros Investments also acquired a 90% stake in DRM company, Ent Global, with plans to let creators and fans to interact directly to purchase, sell and trade various digital assets.

Contributions to bollywood

He is the founder of Eros Innovation Bollywood For You (B4U), a music and entertainment platform. He has been in the launch of the UK's first 24- hour Bollywood digital satellite and pay TV channel on the

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platform. In 2000,

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discussed Lulla's goal of globalizing Bollywood.

Other contributions

Kishore is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He is also a member of the Young presidents' Organization and also a board member of the University of California, Los Angeles Film School. In 2010, Kishore Lulla and his family set up the Eros Foundation for the education of children and worked to bring equality for women in workplace.

Awards and recognition

Awards

* Lulla received the Entertainment Visionary Award by the

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of Southern California for promoting

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. * Asian Business Awards 2007 * Global Citizenship Award 2014 by the American Jewish Committee

Honours and recognition

*As per The Sunday Times rich list released in 2011, Kishore Lulla was among the richest Indian with a net worth of 240 million pounds and with a family fortune of 206 million pounds. * In 2015, Kishore Lulla was a part of the Sun Valley Conference. *Lulla was honoured at the 2018 Economic Times India-UK Strategic Conclave as one of the Game Changers of India.

Controversies

Eros has struggled to shake off accounting fraud allegations for years. In 2012, BDO, the accounting firm, identified a couple of questionable transactions involving Eros and Prime Focus, a company operated by Namit Malhotra.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lulla, Kishore Hindi film producers Living people Film producers from Mumbai 1961 births