Prasad Studios and Prasad Film Labs are
motion picture
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post-production studios headquartered in
Chennai
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,
India
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, founded by
Prasad Group in 1956. The production house has produced over 150 films in
Telugu,
Tamil
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,
Kannada
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,
Malayalam
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and
Hindi
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languages.
The group is one of the largest chains of
post-production
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facilities in India with 12 delivery units located in all of the major film production centres of India including
Hyderabad
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,
Mumbai
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,
Chennai
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,
Bangalore
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,
Thiruvananthapuram
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,
Bhubaneswar
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and
Kolkata
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and has an overseas presence in
Singapore
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,
Dubai
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, and
United States
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.
It has won the
Kerala State Film Award for Best Processing Lab nine times.
History
The group is headed by
Ramesh Prasad and Sai Prasad, son and grandson of the late
L.V. Prasad respectively. It owns one of the major equipment and film facilities in India for feature film and advertising post production. Prasad Group works in feature films, film and video restoration and commercial advertising production.
Prasad Group
*Prasad Productions Pvt Ltd
*Prasad Studios
*Prasad Film Labs
*Prasad EFX - largest digital restoration facilities in the world
*Prasad Video Digital
* Prasad Extreme Digital Cinema Network Pvt Ltd (PXD)
*L. V. Prasad Film and TV Academy
*
Prasads Multiplex / Mall, Prasads IMAX
*Prasad Panavision
*Prasad Corp USA.
*Prasad Digital Intermediate
*DCE Dubai
*DCE Singapore
*
DFT - Digital Film Technology GmbH - manufacturers of the Scanity real time
motion picture film scanner
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(2012-2024).
Locations
India:
*
Chennai
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(headquarters)
*
Hyderabad
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*
Mumbai
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*
Bangalore
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*
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...
*
Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar () is the capital and the largest city of the States and territories of India, Indian state of Odisha. It is located in the Khordha district. The suburban region, especially the old town, was historically often depicted as ''Chakra ...
*
Kolkata
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...
*
New Delhi
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(sales office)
United States:
*
Hollywood (sales office)
*
Burbank
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(sales office)
Germany:
*
Darmstadt
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Japan:
*
Tokyo
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UK:
*
London
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Productions
*''
Arasu Vidumurai'' (2014)
See also
*
L. V. Prasad Eye Institute
References
External links
*{{usurped,
Official website - Prasad Group}
IMDb
Indian film studios
Film production companies based in Hyderabad, India
Recording studios in India
Entertainment companies established in 1965
Indian companies established in 1965
1965 establishments in Andhra Pradesh