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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Motion picture |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Neeraj Pandey Shital Bhatia |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Neeraj Pandey- Co-Founder Shital Bhatia- Co-Founder Devendra Deshpande- CEO |
| Products | Film production Television production |
| Subsidiaries | Friday Storytellers LLP |
| Website | Friday Filmworks |
Friday Filmworks is an Indian film production house founded by film directorNeeraj Pandey and producerShital Bhatia in 2008.[1]
Established in 2008, Friday Filmworks' debut film wasA Wednesday! which earned Neeraj Pandey theIndira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the56th Indian National Film Awards. Friday Filmworks has also produced other films that includeSpecial 26,Baby,Total Siyapaa,Saat Uchakkey,M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story,Naam Shabana,Rustom,Toilet: Ek Prem Katha,Aiyaary and others. In 2024, Friday Filmwork releasedAuron Mein Kahan Dum Tha an Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller. The film was written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. The film starsAjay Devgn andTabu in their ninth film together alongsideJimmy Sheirgill,Shantanu Maheshwari andSaiee Manjrekar.
Friday Filmworks also produced a Marathi filmTaryanche Bait in 2011 and a Bengali filmThe Royal Bengal Tiger in 2014. The company has also produced a slew of popular short films likeOuch!,Ouch 2Laddoo, andThe Relationship Manager for Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films.
In 2016, Friday Filmworks andReliance Entertainment formed a Joint Venture namedPlan C Studios to produce films. The movieRustom which was released in 2016 was the first film underPlan C Studios followed byToilet: Ek Prem Katha,Naam Shabana, andAiyaary.
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| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
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| Industry | Digital motion content |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Founder | Neeraj Pandey Shital Bhatia |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Neeraj Pandey- Co-founder Shital Bhatia- Co-founder Devendra Deshpande- CEO |
| Products | Digital production |
| Website | Friday Storytellers |
Friday Storytellers is one the digital content production arm of Friday Filmworks; it was founded in 2019 focused on producing multi-format content forOTT and digital streaming.[2] The division released its first official web seriesSpecial Ops forDisney+Hotstar in March 2020 followed by the prequelSpecial Ops 1.5[3] in November 2021. In 2023, Friday Storytellers releasedThe Freelancer a thriller series streaming onDisney+Hotstar.[4] The latest series from Friday Storytellers is Special Ops 2, which is set to release on July 18, 2025, with all episodes streaming onJioHotstar.
The division established partnership with Netflix over a strategic multi-project content deal[5] following the success of first collaboration over the popular cop-drama seriesKhakee: The Bihar Chapter. In 2024, Friday Storytellers released Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, a Hindi-language heist thriller starring Jimmy Sheirgill, Avinash Tiwary, and Tamannaah Bhatia. The film premiered onNetflix on 29 November 2024.[6][7] On March 20, 2025, Friday Storytellers releasedKhakee: The Bengal Chapter onNetflix, a crime drama set in West Bengal. The series expands the Khakee universe with a new storyline rooted in real events and local policing. Friday Storytellers is set to release Taskaree: The Smuggler’s Web, a crime thriller web series created byNeeraj Pandey. The series will premiere onNetflix on 14 January 2026, starringEmraan Hashmi,Sharad Kelkar, andZoya Afroz.
Friday Storytellers also collaborated withAmazon miniTV to produceHack: Crimes Online, a cyber-crime thriller series which was released in November 2023.[8] The division has also created documentaries in history and sports.Discovery Plus partnered with Friday Storytellers for three historical documentaries under the franchise titled 'Secrets' and producedSecrets Of Sinauli,Secrets of the Kohinoor, andSecrets of the Buddha Relics hosted by Indian actorManoj Bajpayee.[9] In collaboration withVOOT, Friday Storytellers created a 4-episodes docu-series titledBandon Mein Tha Dum! which follows the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series of 2020-21 which resulted in Indian Cricket Team stunningly defeating Australia team at their home turf of Gabba, where they hadn't lost a test match in 32 years.[10]
| Year | Series | Director(s) | Network | Notes |
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| 2020 | Special OPS | Disney+ Hotstar | [11] | |
| 2021 | Secrets of Sinauli: Discovery of the Century[12] | Raghav Jairath | Discovery+ | |
| Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story | Neeraj Pandey Shivam Nair | Disney+Hotstar | [13] | |
| 2022 | Secrets of the Koh-i-noor | Raghav Jairath | Discovery+ | |
| 2022-present | Khakee: The Bihar Chapter | Bhav Dhulia | Netflix | |
| 2023 | The Freelancer | Bhav Dhulia | Disney+Hotstar | |
| 2023 | Hack: Crimes Online | Parmeet Sethi | Amazon miniTV | |
| 2024 | Secrets of the Buddha Relics | Raghav Jairath | Discovery Plus | |
| 2025 | Khakee: The Bengal Chapter | Debatma Mandal, Tushar Kanti Ray | Netflix | |
| 2025 | Special OPS 2 | Neeraj Pandey, Shivam Nair | JioHotstar | |
| 2026 | Taskaree | Neeraj Pandey, Raghav Jairath, B.A. Fida | Netflix |
| Year | Film | Director | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | A Wednesday! | Neeraj Pandey | |
| 2011 | Taryanche Bait | Kiran Yadnyopavit | Marathi film |
| 2013 | Special 26 | Neeraj Pandey | |
| 2014 | The Royal Bengal Tiger | Rajesh Ganguly | Bengali film |
| Total Siyapaa | Eeshwar Nivas | ||
| 2015 | Baby | Neeraj Pandey | |
| 2016 | M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story | Neeraj Pandey | |
| Saat Uchakkey | Sanjeev Sharma | ||
| Ouch | Neeraj Pandey | Short film | |
| 2017 | Naam Shabana | Shivam Nair | |
| Toilet- Ek Prem Katha | Shree Narayan Singh | ||
| 2018 | Aiyaary | Neeraj Pandey | |
| Missing | Mukul Abhyankar | ||
| 2020 | The Relationship Manager | Falguni Thakore | Short Film |
| 2022 | Kaun Pravin Tambe? | Jayprad Desai | Disney+ Hotstar film |
| Operation Romeo | Shashant Shah | ||
| Saatam Aatham | Shital Shah | ||
| Vikram Vedha | Pushkar-Gayathri | co-produced withJio Studios,Reliance Entertainment,T-Series Films,YNOT Studios | |
| 2023 | OUCH! 2 | Vaibhav Mutha | Short film |
| 2024 | Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha | Neeraj Pandey | |
| Sikandar Ka Muqaddar | Neeraj Pandey | Netflix |
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| Headquarters | India  |
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Key people | Sudip Tewari Neeraj Pandey Shital Bhatia |
| Services | Content production |
Founded by Sudip Tewari, an ex-banker along withNeeraj Pandey andShital Bhatia, Bootroom Sports was created as a sports media company.[14] Through content, platform, and experience, the company aims to showcase sports' extraordinary humans and its economic potential in India.[15]
| Year | Film | Director | Network |
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| 2022 | Kaun Pravin Tambe? | Jayprad Desai | Disney+ Hotstar |
| 2022 | Bandon Mein Tha Dum | Neeraj Pandey | Voot |
