T-Series (company):
On July 11, 1983, Gulshan Kumar founded Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, T-Series, an Indian music record label and motion picture production company. Indi-pop and Bollywood soundtracks are the two main musical genres. T-Series, Sony Music India, and Zee Music are the next largest record labels in India as of 2014. T-Series holds up to a 35% share of the country's music market. As of September 16, 2022, T-Series also owned and operated the YouTube channel with the most subscribers and views, with over 225 million subscribers. T-Series is best known as a music label, but it has also had some success as a production company for movies.
Before T-Series started creating original music, Kumar, who was originally a fruit juice vendor in Delhi, launched the firm to sell Bollywood tunes that had been stolen. Their breakthrough came with the soundtrack to the Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla-starring 1988 Bollywood blockbuster Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by Anand-Milind. The album became one of the best-selling Indian music albums of the 1980s, selling more than 8 million copies. With the release of Nadeem-Aashiqui Shravan's (1990), which sold 20 million copies and went on to become the best-selling Indian soundtrack album of all time, they ultimately rose to prominence in the music industry. On August 12, 1997, the Mumbai crime organization D-Company assassinated Gulshan Kumar. Since that time, his son Bhushan Kumar and younger brother Krishan Kumar have served as the company's executives.
As of 15 December 2021, T-Series' network of 30 YouTube channels—including Lahari Music—had more than 382.3 million subscribers. There are 13 company YouTube team members in the T-Series corporate office. [12] Music videos and movie trailers predominate on the company's primary T-Series YouTube account. In January 2017, it surpassed all other YouTube channels in popularity. [13] Hindi-language programming dominates the T-Series channel, with material sometimes also being produced in Bhojpuri, Punjabi, and English. Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, and Rajasthani are just a few of the Indian languages that the T-Series has channels devoted to.
Bhushan Kumar:
Bhushan Kumar Dua is an Indian film and music producer who was born on November 27, 1977. He serves as T-Series' chairman and managing director of Super Cassettes Industries Limited. His contributions to Bollywood are well recognized.
Career:
In 1998, after the death of his father Gulshan Kumar, Kumar and his uncle Krishan Kumar took over management of the music label T-Series. Later, he rose through the ranks to become the company's chairman and managing director.
Kumar expanded the company's operations into electronics, CDs, audio/video tapes and cassettes, and film production while serving as managing director. He was honored by the Government of India's Electronics and Software Export Promotion Council for both of these reasons as well as for promoting Indian music abroad.
Film producer:
Kumar entered the filmmaking business after establishing his company's position in the music industry. Films like Tum Bin, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Patiala House, and Ready and Lucky: No Time for Love are among Kumar's commercially successful productions.
In 2001, Kumar took on the role of producer for the popular movie Tum Bin, which also served as the directorial and star cast debuts for Anubhav Sinha.
2013 saw the release of Nautanki Saala by Kumar.
The next year, Bushan Kumar released Aashiqui 2, a sequel to Aashiqui. As one of the year's greatest hits, Aashiqui 2 proved to be a turning point for Bhushan's production company.
Later ventures Kumar included the youth-focused film Yaariyan, which was directed by his wife Divya Khosla Kumar. With Bhoothnath Returns in 2014, Kumar brought B.R. Chopra Films back to life. He next ventured into the horror thriller subgenre with the Vikram Bhatt-directed film Creature 3D, starring Bipasha Basu and Imran Abbas.
Directors including Madhur Bhandarkar, Milan Luthra, Anurag Basu, and Mohit Suri have collaborated with T-Series.
On April 3, 2017, Kumar and Akshay Kumar agreed to a deal for the movie Mogul, an official biography based on the life of the actor's father. Aamir Khan agreed to play the character when Akshay Kumar pulled out of the movie, but eventually backed out.
Personal life:
The creator of T-Series, owner Gulshan Kumar, and his wife Sudesh Kumari Dua welcomed Bhushan Kumar into the world in a Punjabi household in Delhi. On February 13, 2005, at the Maa Vaishno Devi temple in Katra, Kumar wed Divya Khosla. A boy was born to them in October 2011.
Bhushan Kumar as Producer:
After excelling in the music Industry, Bhushan Kumar unfurled the business opportunities in the Fim industry and stepped into the production world.
Bhushan Kumar’s production has given many Bollywood hits including Tum Bin, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Patiala House, and Ready and Lucky: No Time for Love.
Bhushan donned the producer's cap in 2001 for Tum Bin, a movie that ran successfully and marked the debut of the lead star cast along with the film's director Anubhav Sinha. Later in 2013, Bhushan Kumar bankrolled the film ‘Nautanki Sala, the remake of Aashiqui (produced by Gulshan Kumar) titled Aashiqui 2 which was the biggest hit of the year.
To date, Bhushan Kumar and his wife Divya Khosla Kumar are ruling the Music Industry and producing many films side by side.
Controversies:
Marina Kuwar accused Bhushan Kumar of sexual harassment in June 2018.
The income tax division charged Kumar in December 2018 with tax evasion and shifting hundreds of crores overseas to buy real estate via Benami methods.
