mumbai india website shemaroo entertainment shemaroo entertainment ltd. was founded on october 29 1962 in mumbai as a book circulating library and today they are an established integrated media content house in india with activities across content acquisition value addition to content and content distribution . 1 ghatothkach is the company s second animated film which they co produced with sun animatics . 2 their content library consists of more than 2 500 titles spanning new hindi films like ishqiya slumdog millionaire ajab prem ki ghazab kahani omkara dil toh baccha hai chandni chowk to china bheja fry 2 amongst others . hindi film classics like mughal e azam shree 420 mera naam joker amar akbar anthony namak halaal kaalia madhumati etc. titles in various other regional languages like marathi gujarati punjabi bengali among others as well as non film content . they are one of the largest independent content aggregators in bollywood and cgi animated films like bal ganesh . maaza navra tuzi baiko was shemaroo s first film in the regional category which was the highest grossing movie in marathi cinema for the year 2006 . today shemaroo is an integrated film production post production distribution and animation studio . history & background edit in 1962 shemaroo pioneered mumbai s first circulating book library . shemaroo book library and its extension for children shemaroo kidz became popular.shemaroo entertainment was started in 1962 by the maroo brothers buddhichand atul & raman in collaboration with the shethias . shethias maroo shemaroo . and thus was born shemaroo . in 1979 they set up india s first video rental business and thereafter in 1987 they forayed into distribution of content through the home video segment in the video home system vhs format . over the years the company has adapted to changing content consumption patterns by expanding into content aggregation and distribution for broadcasting on television platforms . their expansion has continued into new media platforms such as mobile value added services dth internet platforms like youtube and more . in 2010 akg group tied up with shemaroo entertainment for on line video services . shemaroo will be providing akg with premium video content for nyootv.com its social television network . 3 shemaroo has been covered in the economic times 4 and in the business standard . 5 references edit 1 archived december 30 2013 at the wayback machine . animation film ghatothkach to premier at cannes . merinews.com . 2008 05 08 . retrieved 2015 05 16 . akg ties up with shemaroo entertainment for online video service upvery march 10 2010 nandini raghavendra 2011 aug. 20 . how family run enterprise shemaroo grew from local to a national brand . the economic times . accessed 2 feb 2013 gaurav laghate 2013 jan. 29 . shemaroo gets maha govt tender for digital restoration . business standard . accessed 2 feb 2013 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title shemaroo entertainment & oldid 738235246 categories film distributors of indiafilm production companies of indiabollywoodhome video distributorscompanies based in mumbaicompanies based in maharashtraentertainment companies established in 1962hidden categories articles with wayback machine linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 18 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view