We are part of the Eros Group, which is a global player within the Indian media and entertainment sector that has been in the business close to three decades. The Eros Group has an extensive film library and is in the business of sourcing Indian and other film content and exploiting it worldwide through its offices in India, UK, USA, UAE, Singapore, Australia, the Isle of Man and Fiji across formats such as theatres, home entertainment, television and digital new media. Eros plc, the holding company of the Eros Group, is a Promoter of our Company and is listed on Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

We exclusively source all Indian film content for the Eros Group and exploit such content across formats within India, Nepal and Bhutan. Our Company has various rights to over 1,000 films which include Hindi, Tamil and other regional language films, including films such as Mughal-e-Azam, Om Shanti Om, Lage Raho Munnabhai and Love Aaj Kal, which we consider to be a key competitive advantage and an integral part of our business model. We also own rights to certain English language films for home entertainment distribution within India. The Hindi, Tamil, other regional and English language films together form the Eros India Library.

Our business is broadly structured as below :

We source content primarily through acquisitions from third parties and through co-productions and, occasionally, through our own productions. We mainly acquire films from third party producers at various stages of a film’s production for an agreed contractual value, and also co-produce films from inception with certain producers for a pre-agreed fixed budget. We have only released a single own production to date, namely Aa Dekhen Zara, as we rely more on acquisitions and co-productions to source content.

We exploit and distribute end-to-end Indian film content within India, Nepal and Bhutan through multiple formats such as theatres, home entertainment, principally in the form of DVDs, VCDs and audio CDs, and television syndication, which primarily involves licensing the broadcasting rights to major satellite television broadcasting channels, cable television channels and terrestrial television channels. We also exploit and distribute content via digital new media such as mobile ring tones, wallpapers and downloads, IPTV, DTH and other internet channels and we also license films to airlines for in-flight viewing.

The international rights for distribution of Indian film content for the entire world excluding India, Nepal and Bhutan are licensed to the Eros International Group with effect from October 1, 2009 between our Company and our Promoters, Eros Worldwide FZ LLC and Eros International PLC. However, our Tamil language films are distributed globally by our Subsidiary Ayngaran International.

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