Alia, Kareena, Deepika to Priyanka, India's leading actresses who turned producers for their films- India TV News

Recently Netflix announced its projects for this year. These include the film 'Toaster' starring Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra. This film is being produced by Rajkumar Rao's wife Patralekha. In the world of cinema, women have also started taking the command of film production in their hands. Many famous actresses have also taken over and are handling the chair as producers. Let's have a look at Bollywood heroines who produced their films in recent times.

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Deepika Padukone started a production house named KA Entertainment in the year 2018, in which she made the film Chhapaak on acid attack. Deepika played the lead role in this film. The film made with just Rs 35 crores, earned Rs 55.44 crore at the global box office. Deepika had also co-produced Ranveer Singh's multi-starrer sports drama 83. This film based on the Cricket World Cup 1983 was made with a huge budget of Rs 220 crore, but being a flop it earned only Rs 193 crore worldwide.

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas is a well-known Bollywood and Hollywood actress. The actress also runs a production house along with working in films. She is the owner of Purple Pebble Pictures Production House. She started it in the year 2015. Till now many films have been produced under this production house. This list also includes Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi and Bhojpuri language films.

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Student Of The Year actor Alia Bhatt turned producer in the year 2020 with her Netflix film Darlings. The Vijay Varma and Shefali Shah was produced by Alia. Her production house Eternal Sunshine Productions' first venture was Darlings. The film was able to impress the critics and audiences as well. Eternal Sunshine Productions has also co-produced Jigra which failed at the box office and Prime Video's Poacher.

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Kapoor family's beloved daughter Kareena Kapoor entered the world of acting with the film Refugee. After this, she won the hearts of the audience with her acting in many films. Now she has also debuted on OTT as well. Kareena Kapoor Khan made her debut as a producer with the film 'The Buckingham Murders'. This film was released on September 13, 2024. This film was co-produced by Kareena Kapoor Khan and Ekta Kapoor together. Hansal Mehta directed the critically acclaimed film.

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Anushka Sharma also started Clean Slate Films Production House along with her brother Karnesh Sharma. Many films have been produced under this production house, out of which Anushka has acted in most of the films. These films include films like NH 10, Pari and Phillauri. Web projects have also been made under Anushka's production house like Qala, Bulbul and Panchayat. However, after such participation now Anusha has distanced herself from the home production and focuses on Family life.

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Bollywood actor and Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut started the Manikarnika Films production house in the year 2021. She started this production house to give a chance to new artists. Till now, she has produced three films, Aparajitha Ayodhya, Tiku Weds Sheru and Emergency.

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Taapsee Pannu is also included in this list. She also started a production house named Outsiders Films. The actress also started this production house to give opportunities to new artists, who do not have any godfathers in the industry and have been struggling for a long time. Apart from this, Kriti Sanon marked her debut as a producer in 2024 with the Netflix film Do Patti. Apart from Kriti, the film also features Dilwale and TV actor Shaheer Sheikh.