Shemaroo Entertainment has filed draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with Securities Exchange Board of India for an initial public offering (IPO). The company plans to raise Rs 115 crore through this IPO. Yes Bank and ICICI Securities are the book running lead manager and Link Intime is the registrar to the issue.

The issue proceeds will be utilized for funding working capital requirements and for general corporate purposes.

Shemaroo Entertainment was founded on October 29, 1962, in Mumbai, as a book circulating library, today, the company is an established integrated media content house in India with activities across content acquisition, value addition to content and content distribution. Shemaroo Entertainment has set up India's first video rental business and thereafter in 1987 it forayed into distribution of content through the home video segment in the video home system (“VHS”) format.

At present, the content Library consists of more than 2,500 titles spanning new and old Hindi films, also titles in various other regional languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali among others as well as non-film content. It is one of the largest independent content aggregators in Bollywood. Currently, the company distributes content over which it has either complete ownership rights or limited ownership rights.

Shemaroo’s recent initiatives include tying up as an official channel partner for Google Inc.’s You Tube where it is managing 32 channels. The company is also moving beyond providing just content, to providing content management solutions to partners including (i) Airtel digital television in connection with an interactive devotional service, namely “iDarshan” (ii) British Telecom’s (UK) IPTV service BT Vision for their South-Asian content pack and (iii) Tata DOCOMO’s video platform for 3G services.

Shemaroo Entertain. Share Price

111.30 -2.40 (-2.11%)
05-Dec-2025 13:20 View Price Chart
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