Founded in 2013 by Vikram Malhotra (formerly, COO – Viacom18 Motion Pictures),
Abundantia Entertainment is India’s premier content company focused on developing, producing and distributing
progressive, insight-based and uniquely Indian stories for a global audience.
Creating for both theatrical and streaming platforms, Abundantia Entertainment’s filmography boasts of
critically acclaimed and commercial hit films like Baby, Airlift, Toilet – Ek Prem Katha, Shakuntala Devi,
Sherni, Chhorii, Jalsa, Ram Setu, Sukhee and Sarfira. The company has an exciting slate of films in the
pipeline, top-lined by the sequel to the successful, genre-defining horror film, Chhorii, the remake of the
critically acclaimed Malayalam film, Angamaly Diaries and the action-drama film, Subedaar headlined by superstar
Anil Kapoor. Book adaptations of bestsellers like Flawed – the Nirav Modi saga are also being developed as are
films with talented directors like Jai Mehta who co-directed the smash hit series, ‘Scam 1992’, Bhav Dhulia,
director of the critically acclaimed ‘Khakee: The Bihar chapter’ and with Mayank Sharma who directed three
seasons of the globally hit Amazon Prime Video series, Breathe.
Abundantia Entertainment was a pioneer creator in the streaming world in India with its Amazon Original,
‘Breathe’ releasing to fabulous response in 2018. This was followed by its much-loved second season in 2020,
Breathe: Into The Shadows, which also marked the digital debut of movie stars Abhishek Bachchan and Nithya
Menen. The latest and third season of Breathe: Into The Shadows was a huge hit amongst the critics and audiences
globally upon its launch in 2022. Abundantia’s all-women-led ensemble, ‘Hush Hush’ brought yesteryear super
stars Juhi Chawla and Ayesha Jhulka into the streaming world and released to rave reviews on Prime Video.
There’s a diverse array of content in development as streaming originals that includes ‘The End’, marking the
streaming debut of superstar Akshay Kumar, a multi-season crime drama, Daldal starring Bhumi Pednekar in the
lead and a multi-season series with the award-winning director and showrunner Hansal Mehta.
To further its commitment in supporting and enabling the vision of its creator partners and to incubate
high-potential talent, Abundantia Entertainment has launched ‘Opening Image’ in collaboration with long-standing
partner, Suresh Triveni, the director of critically and commercially successful films like Tumhari Sulu and
Jalsa. Opening Image is a creative studio with a clear focus on creating and developing differentiated content
across mediums and aims at being an ecosystem for young writers and directors to flourish under Triveni’s
guidance. An exciting slate of films and series is already under development, including Suresh Triveni’s own
directorial ventures as well as content that he is set to show-run.
To focus on high-growth and high-potential segments and genres, Abundantia Entertainment has launched two
genre-specific verticals – ‘Psych’ for horror and paranormal stories and ‘Filters’ for the Young Adult segment
and is actively developing content under these.
Vikram Malhotra is the Founder & CEO of Abundantia Entertainment, India’s
premier content company focused on developing and producing progressive, insight-based and uniquely
Indian stories for a global audience.
Formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom18 Motion Pictures, one of India’s largest motion
pictures studios, Vikram is the name behind some of the Indian film industry’s most-loved films in
the last few years. At Viacom18, Vikram built an enviable track record for the studio - from
critically acclaimed box-office hits like Kahaani, Gangs of Wasseypur, Special 26, Bhaag Milkha
Bhaag, Madras Cafe and Queen, to mass entertainers like OMG – Oh My God, Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Tanu
Weds Manu, to name a few.
Vikram, who has also previously headed the motion pictures business at Balaji Telefilms, set the bar
even higher with Abundantia Entertainment.
One of our founding principles is to listen to our consumers and focus on progressive and innovative storytelling. With the emergence of personalized content consumption trends, the strategy behind the launch of these two new verticals is to focus on specific audience segments and content genres.
‘Psych’ develops and produces content that is focused on horror and paranormal - a genre that is home to some of the fastest-growing audience franchises in the world. Horror is a distinct segment which requires a specific skill set of storytelling and story crafting. By adding a host of writers and directors and collaborating with global experts in this field like Crypt TV we plan on creating innovative and engaging platform-agnostic content in these verticals that will connect with audiences worldwide. Our aim is pure-play, bone-chilling horror.
‘Filters’ creates and produces content that focuses on the young adult demographic. There are multiple films and originals being developed along with ‘The Hood’, including the remake of ‘Missing’ and an adaptation of the popular book ‘Along Came a Spyder’, to name a few.
