Vishesh Films

Vishesh Films

Industry	Motion pictures
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Mumbai , India
Key people	Vishesh Bhatt (CEO)
Products	Motion pictures
Owner	Mukesh Bhatt
Website	www.visheshfilms.com

Vishesh Films is an Indian film company, founded in 1986. It is currently owned by Mukesh Bhatt and is named after his son Vishesh. Vishesh Films is one of the most successful Indian film production houses.

History

In 1987 Mukesh Bhatt turned producer when he set up his own banner, "Vishesh Films", naming it after his son Vishesh Bhatt. He went on to become one of the most recognised banners of the Indian film industry in the coming decade, giving both serious productions (along with his brother Mahesh who directed these films) – like Daddy (1989), launching his niece Pooja Bhatt as a movie actress, — as well as commercial romantic hits like Kabza (1987), Aashiqui (1990) and Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991), in which he cast Pooja with actor Aamir Khan. He next produced Sadak (1991) which remains his highest grossing work, which was also directed by his brother Mahesh Bhatt under the banner Vishesh Films. He won critical acclaim for Sir (1993), which saw Pooja Bhatt act with Naseeruddin Shah along with the hit Criminal (1995).

He went on to produce the film Tadipaar. Following this, he produced dramas like Dastak (1996), the debut film of Miss Universe 1994-turned-actress Sushmita Sen, and Tamanna (1997). In 1998 his brother Mahesh Bhatt directed his last directorial venture Zakhm (1998) returned to the censor board because of right-wing pressure critical of its references to the Mumbai riots of 1993 and joined Mukesh Bhatt's production house as a full-time creative head of "Vishesh Films". Thereafter, the Bhatt brothers joined hands and churned out stories and screenplays for over twenty films, many of which were box-office successes, like Dushman, Raaz, Murder (2004), Gangster (2006), Woh Lamhe (2006), Murder 2 (2011), Jism 2 (2012) and Murder 3 (2013).

Vishesh Films is known for producing small-budgeted commercially successful films with great music. They produced thrillers like Raaz (2002), Jism (2003), Murder (2004), and Gangster (2006), all of which were major commercial successes.

They further produced Zeher (2005), Awarapan (2007), and Jannat (2008), all starring Emraan Hashmi. While the first two were moderate successes, the latter emerged as a super hit. They then began producing quasi-sequels and have given the maximum number of franchises to Indian cinema. However, a common criticism of the films produced under the banner has been that the films are unofficial adaptations and rip-offs of many Hollywood and South Korean films.

For 30 years, Mukesh along with his brother, Mahesh, produced films under the production house. However owing to differences between the brothers, Mukesh officially took over Vishesh Films and in May 2021, it was publicly announced that Mahesh Bhatt was no more associated with the production house.

Filmography

The following is a list of films produced under the banner Vishesh Films.

1986–2000

Release date			Title	CBFC rating	Director	Writer	Composer	Lyricist	Cast
1988	May	20	Kabzaa	U	Mahesh Bhatt	Salim Khan	Rajesh Roshan	Anand Bakshi	Amrita Singh Raj Babbar Sanjay Dutt
1989	February	08	Daddy	U		Suraj Sanim			Anupam Kher Pooja Bhatt Manohar Singh Raj Zutshi
1990	July	13	Jurm	A		Salim Khan		Indeevar Payam Sayeedi	Meenakshi Sheshadri Sangeeta Bijlani Vinod Khanna
	August	17	Aashiqui	U		Akash Khurana Robin Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer, Rani Malik & Madan Pal	Rahul Roy Anu Aggarwal Deepak Tijori
1991	July	3	Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin	U		Robin Bhatt Sharad Joshi		Faiz Anwar	Aamir Khan Anupam Kher Pooja Bhatt Tiku Talsania
	December	3	Sadak	A		Robin Bhatt		Sameer, Surinder Saathi, Rani Malik	Pooja Bhatt Sanjay Dutt
1992	September	18	Junoon	A		Robin Bhatt		Sameer, Surinder Saathi, Rani Malik and Santosh Anand	Avinash Wadhawan Pooja Bhatt Rahul Roy
1993			Jaanam	U	Vikram Bhatt		Anu Malik	Faaiz Anwar Indeevar Qateel Shifai Rahat Indori	Paresh Rawal Pooja Bhatt Rahul Roy
	July	9	Sir	U/A	Mahesh Bhatt	Jay Dixit		Qateel Shifai Rahat Indori	Atul Agnihotri Naseeruddin Shah Pooja Bhatt
	December	17	Tadipaar	U			Nadeem–Shravan	Sameer	Anupam Kher Gulshan Grover Juhi Chawla Mithun Chakraborty Pooja Bhatt
1994	August	19	Naaraaz	A		Jay Dixit	Anu Malik	Dev Kohli Maya Govind Qateel Shifai Rahat Indori Zameer Qazmi	Atul Agnihotri Gulshan Grover Mithun Chakraborty Pooja Bhatt Sonali Bendre
1995	March	17	Naajayaz	U/A		Jay Dixit		Sudarshan Faakir Indeewar Rahat Indori Maya Govind Pushpa Verma	Ajay Devgn Juhi Chawla Naseeruddin Shah
	July	21	Criminal	A			M. M. Keeravani	Vennelakanti Sirivennela Sitaramasastri	Manisha Koirala Nagarjuna Akkineni Ramya Krishnan
1996	June	28	Fareb	A	Vikram Bhatt	Iqbal Durrani	Jatin–Lalit	Neeraj Indeevar	Kundan singh Milind Gunaji Suman Ranganathan
	November	29	Dastak	A	Mahesh Bhatt	Vikram Bhatt	Rajesh Roshan	Javed Akhtar	Bhavna Datta Manoj Bajpai Mukul Dev Sharad Kapoor Sushmita Sen Tiku Talsania Vishwajeet Pradhan
1997	May	8	Dil Kitna Nadan Hai	U	Ravi Rai	Vikram Bhatt	Anu Malik	Faiz Anwar, Hasrat Jaipuri, Rahat Indori	Raja Bherwani, Raageshwari, Kiran Kumar
1998	May	29	Dushman	A	Tanuja Chandra	Sachin Bhowmick	Aadesh Shrivastava Uttam Singh	Anand Bakshi	Ashutosh Rana Kajol Sanjay Dutt
	June	19	Ghulam	A	Vikram Bhatt	Jatin–Lalit	Anjum Rajabali	Indeevar, Nitin Raikwar, Sameer, Vinod Mahendra	Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Deepak Tijori, Sharat Saxena Pooja Bhatt
1999	September	3	Sangharsh	A	Tanuja Chandra	Girish Dhamija Mahesh Bhatt	Jatin–Lalit		Akshay Kumar Ashutosh Rana Preity Zinta
	December	10	Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan	U	Mahesh Bhatt	Girish Dhamija		Indeevar, Nitin Raikwar, Sameer, Faaiz Anwar	Saif Ali Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Chunky Pandey, Akshay Anand

2001–present

Release date			Title	CBFC rating	Director	Writer	Composer	Lyricist	Cast
2001	February	2	Kasoor	A	Vikram Bhatt	Girish Dhamija Mahesh Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer	Aftab Shivdasani Apurva Agnihotri Ashutosh Rana Divya Dutta Irrfan Khan Lisa Ray
	November	16	Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar	U/A	Tanuja Chandra	Mahesh Bhatt	Daboo Malik Sajid–Wajid		Ameesha Patel Gulshan Grover Jimmy Shergill Nafisa Ali
2002	February	1	Raaz	A	Vikram Bhatt	Girish Dhamija Mahesh Bhatt	Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer	Ashutosh Rana Bipasha Basu Dino Morea Malini Sharma
	September	20	Gunaah	A	Amol Shetge	Mahesh Bhatt	Anand Raj Anand Sajid–Wajid	Praveen Bhardwaj, Anand Bakshi	Bipasha Basu Dino Morea Irrfan Khan
2003	July	4	Saaya	U/A	Anurag Basu	Amol Shetge	Anu Malik M. M. Keeravani	Sayeed Quadri	John Abraham Mahima Chaudhry Tara Sharma
	August	15	Footpath	A	Vikram Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	Himesh Reshammiya Nadeem-Shravan	Sameer	Aftab Shivdasani Bipasha Basu Emraan Hashmi Rahul Dev
	October	24	Inteha	A	Vikram Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	Anu Malik	Rahat Indori, Praveen Bhardwaj and Dev Kohli	Ashmit Patel Nauheed Cyrusi Vidya Malvade
2004	April	2	Murder	A	Anurag Basu	Anurag Basu		Rahat Indori Sayeed Quadri	Ashmit Patel Emraan Hashmi Mallika Sherawat
2005			Film Star		Tanuja Chandra				Mahima Chaudhry Priyanshu Chatterjee Vasundhara Das
	March	25	Zeher	A	Mohit Suri	Mahesh Bhatt	Anu Malik Roop Kumar Rathod	Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Sameer Kochhar Shamita Shetty Udita Goswami
	May	20	Nazar	A	Soni Razdan	Mahesh Bhatt	Anu Malik		Aly Khan Ashmit Patel Meera Rupak Mann
	December	9	Kalyug	A	Mohit Suri	Mohit Suri		Sayeed Quadri	Amrita Singh Emraan Hashmi Kunal Khemu
2006	April	28	Gangster	A	Anurag Basu	Mahesh Bhatt	Pritam	Mayur Puri Neelesh Misra Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Kangana Ranaut Shiney Ahuja
	July	21	The Killer	A	Hasnain Hydrabadwala, Raksha Mistry	Mahendra Lakhan	Sajid–Wajid	Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Irfan Khan Nisha Kothari
	September	29	Woh Lamhe	A	Mohit Suri	Mahesh Bhatt	Pritam	Sayeed Quadri	Kangana Ranaut Shiney Ahuja
2007	June	29	Awarapan	U/A	Mohit Suri	Shagufta Rafique		Asif Ali Baig Annie Khalid Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Mrinalini Sharma Shriya Saran
	August	31	Dhokha	U/A	Pooja Bhatt	Shagufta Rafique	M. M. Keeravani	Shagufta Rafique	Ashutosh Rana Aushima Sawhney Muzammil Ibrahim Tulip Joshi
	December	28	Showbiz	U	Raju Khan	Shagufta Rafique	Lalit Pandit		Tushar Jalota Gulshan Grover Mrinalini Sharma Sushant Singh
2008	May	16	Jannat	U/A	Kunal Deshmukh	Vishesh Bhatt	Pritam	Kamran Ahmed Neelesh Misra Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Javed Sheikh Sonal Chauhan Sameer Kochhar Vishal Malhotra
2009	January	23	Raaz – The Mystery Continues	A	Mohit Suri	Shagufta Rafique	Gourov Dasgupta Pranay M Rijia Raju Singh Sharib Sabri Toshi Sabri	Kumaar Sayeed Quadri	Adhyayan Suman Emraan Hashmi Kangana Ranaut
	July	17	Jashnn	U/A	Hasnain Hyderabadwala Raksha Mistry		Nouman Javaid Sandesh Shandilya Sharib Sabri Toshi Sabri	Kumaar Neelesh Misra Nouman Javaid	Adhyayan Suman Anjana Sukhani Humayun Saeed Shahana Goswami
	November	13	Tum Mile	U/A	Kunal Deshmukh		Pritam	Kumaar Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Soha Ali Khan
2010	October	8	Crook	A	Mohit Suri	Ankur Tewari		Kumaar	Arjan Bajwa Emraan Hashmi Neha Sharma
2011	July	8	Murder 2	A	Mohit Suri	Mahesh Bhatt Shagufta Rafique	Harshit Saxena Mithoon Sangeet Haldipur Siddharth Haldipur	Kumaar Mithoon Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Jacqueline Fernandez Prashant Narayanan Sudhanshu Pandey
2012	March	30	Blood Money	A	Vishal Mahadkar	Upendra Sidhye	Jeet Gannguli Pranay M Rijia Sangeet Haldipur Siddharth Haldipur	Kumaar Sayeed Quadri	Amrita Puri Kunal Khemu
	May	4	Jannat 2	A	Kunal Deshmukh	Shagufta Rafique	Pritam	Sayeed Quadri	Emraan Hashmi Esha Gupta Randeep Hooda
	September	7	Raaz 3	A	Vikram Bhatt	Shagufta Rafique	Jeet Gannguli Mithoon Rashid		Bipasha Basu Emraan Hashmi Esha Gupta
2013	February	15	Murder 3	U/A	Vishesh Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	Pritam Roxen (band)	Sayeed Quadri	Randeep Hooda Aditi Rao Hydari Sara Loren
	April	26	Aashiqui 2	U	Mohit Suri	Shagufta Rafique	Jeet Gannguli Mithoon Ankit Tiwari		Aditya Roy Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor
2014	May	30	CityLights	A	Hansal Mehta		Jeet Gannguli		Patraleka Rajkummar Rao
2015	January	30	Khamoshiyan	A	Karan Darra		Jeet Gannguli Bobby-Imran Ankit Tiwari Naved Zafar		Sapna Pabbi Ali Fazal Gurmeet Choudhary
	April	17	Mr. X	U/A	Vikram Bhatt		Jeet Gannguli Mithoon Ami Mishra		Emraan Hashmi Amyra Dastur
	June	12	Hamari Adhuri Kahani	U	Mohit Suri		Jeet Gannguli Ankit Tiwari		Emraan Hashmi Vidya Balan Rajkummar Rao
2016	April	8	Love Games	A	Vikram Bhatt	Vikram Bhatt	Sangeet Haldipur Sidharth Haldipur	Kausar Munir, Vikram Bhatt	Patraleka Tara Alisha Berry Gaurav Arora
	September	16	Raaz: Reboot	A	Vikram Bhatt Girish Dhamija		Jeet Gannguli Sangeet Haldipur Sidharth Haldipur		Emraan Hashmi Kriti Kharbanda Gaurav Arora
2017	April	14	Begum Jaan	A	Srijit Mukherji	Sumair Malik	Anu Malik	Kausar Munir	Vidya Balan Ila Arun Naseeruddin Shah Rajit Kapoor Ashish Vidyarthi Gauahar Khan Chunky Pandey Pallavi Sharda Mishti
2018	October	12	Jalebi	U/A	Pushpadeep Bharadwaj	Kausar Munir, Pushpdeep Bhardwaj	Jeet Gannguli, Tanishk Bagchi, Javed-Mohsin, Abhishekh Mishra, Samuel-Akanksha	Rashmi Virag, Prashant Ingole, Manoj Kumarnath, Arafat Mehmood and Kunaal Vermaa	Rhea Chakraborty Varun Mitra Digangana Suryavanshi
2020	August	28	Sadak 2	V/UA	Mahesh Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt, Sumitra Sengupta	Jeet Gannguli, Ankit Tiwari, Samidh Mukherjee, Urvi, Suniljeet	Jeet Gannguli, Rashmi Virag, Vijay Vijawatt, Shabbir Ahmed, Suniljeet and Shalu Vaish	Sanjay Dutt Pooja Bhatt Aditya Roy Kapoor Alia Bhatt
2024	May	31	Savi	UA	Abhinay Deo	Parveez Shaikh, Aseem Arora	Vishal Mishra, Javed-Mohsin, Piyush Shanker, Arkadeep Karmakar	Raj Shekhar, Rashmi Virag, Ritajaya Banerjee	Anil Kapoor Divya Khosla Kumar Harshvardhan Rane

Top-grossing films

Rank	Name	Year	Domestic Gross	Starring
1	Aashiqui 2	2013	₹854.0 million (US$10 million)	Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor
2	Raaz 3	2012	₹729.0 million (US$8.5 million)	Bipasha Basu, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta
3	Murder 2	2011	₹500.3 million (US$5.9 million)	Emraan Hashmi, Jacqueline Fernandez
4	Jannat 2	2012	₹420 million (US$4.9 million)	Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Randeep Hooda
5	Jism 2	2012	₹349.7 million (US$4.1 million)	Sunny Leone, Randeep Hooda, Arunoday Singh