It was 24th October 1978 when Subhash Ghai launchd his production company MUKTA ARTS with Rishi Kapoor starrer KARZ -an evergreen musical classic till date and never looked back in launching all his movies on 24th October which is his wedding anniversary. He named his company Mukta Arts after his wife Mukta Ghai from Pune.
A student from the acting course of FTII had a
stint of four years as an actor in Mumbai and became a story writer for top 6
directors of the 70s including Prakash Mehra and Dulal Guha with his
scripts like Aakhri Daku and Khan Dost . After being a writer for 3
years he was given a chance to direct his own script KALICHARAN which
established him as a director par excellence. He wrote and directed another
super hit VISHWANATH for Shatrughan Sinha’s production. He was recognised for
his crispy talent of dialogue writing extracting performances from actors big
or small.
After directing two more films with a bigger
canvas Gautam Govinda n Krodhi starring Dharmendra , he launched his production
company on 24 th October 1978 with KARZ. With KARZ
he came up in the rank of top musical directors and craftsmen of hindi
mainstream cinema.
After watching KARZ superstar DILIP KUMAR accepted
to work under his direction in script VIDHATA a golden jubilee God father film
produced by Gulshan Rai with a young new actor SANJAY DUTT again which was
launched on 24 oct 1981.
He launched his new company as MUKTA ARTS PVT LTD
company on 24 th October 1982 with his evergreen
musical love story HERO introducing JACKIE SHROFF AND MEENAXI SHESHADRI.
He launched a court drama MERI JUNG for his mentor
N N sippy on 24 oct 1984 casting then rising
actor Anil Kapoor who became a star actor for his performance as a lawyer.
Since then on every 24
th October the whole film industry would wait for his announcement of a new
movie under mukta arts. Distributors would send their cheques in advance on the
24th without knowing the star cast. He became the
most popular writer-director producer of india. Media titled him as SHOWMAN
after his biggest blockbuster action film KARMA with an immortal patriotic song
“e watan tere liye”
A string of blockbusters were followed like family
drama RAM LAKHAN , Epical story of two titans SAUDAGAR with Dilip kumar raj
kumar , an emotional crime Thriller KHALNAYAK , An indian daughter story PARDES
, a Grand big screen musical TAAL , a father-daughter's social drama YAADEIEN ,
period drama KISNA , a musical canvas YUVRAAJ, an Issue based drama on
terrorists BLACK And WHITE. all these movies were launched on 24th
October of the year
In 2001 Mukta Arts was the
first hindi production company which was listed in public in India and raised
funds to set up a world class film and media arts school Whistling Woods
International in Film City Mumbai to groom the next generations of content and
film makers.
Mukta Arts produced 42
films including super hits like Aitraaz, China Town, Iqbal, Ek aur Ek Gyarah,
Apna Sapna Money Money, Jaan etc and distributed 400
plus films and today runs 60 screens as
exhibitors all over.
Mukta arts developed a huge story bank with young
and veteran writers and today it has tied up with one of India’s biggest
studios ZEE STUDIO to produce three movies in 2021. Scripts
of all three are ready which include a comedy, a thriller and a courtroom
drama.Cast and crew being finalised to go on floors in March 2021.
Again on 24th 2020 when
Mukta arts is back with a bang in film productions too. Wait n watch next 24 th
October 2021 for a bigger surprise.
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