Zineeverse Motion PicturesFilm · Distribution · Screens · StreamingHyderabad, est. 2021
We write, produce, distribute and screen Telugu films, and stream the world’s cinema free on Zinestream. One studio, from the first draft to the last show.
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Zineeverse began in 2021 with a simple belief: a film is better looked after when the people who make it also carry it to the audience. So we do both. We develop stories, produce them, release them, run screens and stream them, from one office in Banjara Hills, with a team that has spent a working lifetime in Indian cinema.
Our founder, Balwanth Singh, began as a territory manager at Columbia Tristar Films and has worked across distribution, exhibition, production and digital for more than thirty years. The people around him learned the trade at Usha Kiran Movies, Suresh Productions, Zee Telugu, MAA TV and Google.
That history is what we build on. We know which stories travel, which theatres fill up on a Friday, and how a good film keeps finding its audience long after the first weekend.
Every film on our slate is Telugu, made in the ₹3–5 crore range, and rooted in the towns, villages and families we know. Most are feel-good, a few have a sharper sense of humour, and all ten are written and moving through pre-production.
Twenty-plus stories through our writers’ room. Ten made the cut.
₹3–5 crore a film: big enough for cinema, lean enough to back a new voice.
Crews, locations, post and music planned across the slate.
Ten releases in about two years: theatres, then TV, streaming, overseas and dubbed.
A story developed here can be produced here, released through our distribution network, played on our screens and streamed on Zinestream. Eleven parts of one business, each feeding the next.
Every Zineeverse film starts here. Writers, directors and our creative team work on a story together until it is ready to be made.
Telugu features made on a slate model: ten films planned and produced side by side, each in the ₹3–5 crore range.
Theatrical and digital release for Telugu, Hindi and English films across India, run by people who have done it for three decades.
We run cinema screens in malls and single-screen theatres, starting with the towns the big chains tend to overlook.
Our own streaming platform. Free to watch, chosen by people, in more than twenty-five languages.
We take Indian filmmakers to the world’s festivals and markets, and bring buyers and co-producers to them.
Exclusive rights to more than 85 English-language films across the SAARC region, dubbed and subtitled for audiences here.
Original animated series and shorts, educational films for children, and animation for brands.
Web series, documentary shorts and branded series, made for phones first and cut for every platform.
Long conversations with the people who make cinema, and stories written to be heard.
Soundtracks for our films, independent singles, and a growing catalogue for licensing.
Hollywood and independent films, world classics, South Indian cinema and thousands of hours of short-form work. No subscription, no paywall, and every film chosen by someone who watched it first.
Our media consultancy works with production houses, independent filmmakers, studios, streaming platforms and brands. Bring us a draft, a shoot, or a finished film looking for a home.
Dialogue, structure and character work from experienced writers, without losing the writer’s voice.
Introductions to producers, distributors, platforms, brands and talent across Telugu, Hindi and pan-Indian cinema.
Auditions, shortlists and screen tests from a talent pool that spans ages, languages and disciplines.
We scout actors, directors, writers, composers and technicians, and help them land a first real break.
Cinema cameras, lenses, lighting and grip through trusted rental partners, and advice on the right package.
Scouting, permissions, local liaison, transport and stay for shoots across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and beyond.
Period pieces and speciality props, sourced and managed alongside your art director.
Design, sourcing, fittings and continuity, through designers and wardrobe houses across India.
Edit workflow, VFX vendors, sound, grading and DI, CBFC submissions and delivery specs.
Rights, platform pitches, packaging, metadata, subtitles, dubbing and licensing.
Five people, more than 130 years in Indian film, television and business between them. Tap a card to turn it over.
Head, Film Distribution
Head, Film Distribution
Twenty-five years in distribution, including as business manager at Usha Kiran Movies, Suresh Productions and Zee Entertainment. Jakir has planned and run all-India releases, and knows the circuits, exhibitors and calendars that decide how a film opens.
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Production & Creative Head
Production & Creative Head
Thirty years of writing and directing for film and television: second-unit director on Intlo Satya Setlo Radhika, story and screenplay on Nee Kosam Nenu, fiction head at Zee Telugu, creative producer on Mamathala Kovela for UTV and Gemini TV, co-director of Abhay Charan and executive producer of the Marathi film Prashn Garbh.
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Founder & Managing Director
Founder & Managing Director
More than thirty years in Indian cinema, across distribution, exhibition, production and digital. Balwanth started as a territory manager at Columbia Tristar Films, opened mini theatres at APSRTC bus stations and built a two-screen test miniplex at the Vijayawada bus stand. He founded Zineeverse in 2021 to bring every stage of a film’s life under one company.
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Director of Operations
Director of Operations
Close to three decades running operations across technology and services. Sridhar was CEO and Director of TwoPowerN Technologies, managed operations and quality at Google’s India R&D centre, and has consulted on World Bank projects. At Zineeverse he runs the machinery: planning, people and delivery.
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Finance & Administration
Finance & Administration
Nineteen years across finance, administration and marketing. Praveen keeps the company’s accounts, correspondence and daily administration in order, with a marketer’s feel for how a film reaches people.
Tap to flip backEvery decision answers to something bigger than the box office.
Partners hear what is happening, including when it isn’t going to plan.
Care in every story, every frame and every note.
First-time directors, writers, actors and technicians get a real shot here, including through our work with the Dada Saheb Phalke School of Film Studies.
New formats, new tools, and a close eye on what the rest of the world does well.
Films for audiences of every background, and Indian stories carried proudly beyond India.
Co-productions, distribution, Zinestream, screens, scripts, or a question we haven’t thought of yet. Messages reach our founder’s desk, and the right person will write back.
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