Anku Pande

Anku Pande
Anku Pande
	Anku Pande
Born	Anku Pande; 13 November 1972 (age 51); Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradhesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	1997 to present

Anku Pande (born Vishakhapatnam, 13 November 1972) is a film producer from Nainital, Uttarakhand in India.

Pande has been responsible for introducing new talent and franchises into the industry as creative head of Viacom18 Motion Pictures.

She has worked across all media and entertainment platforms. She started her career as an editor and then went on to direct and produce various documentaries and television commercials.

She is an alumna of The American Film Institute, Los Angeles.^[1]

Biography[edit]

She started her career under Dileep Patgaongar and Vinod Dua as an assistant producer and reporter. From there she moved on to work for Fremantle India. She then joined Bitv as an editor and was one of the first few to be trained to use the Grass Valley Switcher and edit using Avid. After Bitv she worked freelance as director and editor for corporate films, edited shows for TV, directed and produced commercials and documentaries. She then moved to Los Angeles to do her master's degree in film producing at the American Film Institute. Her film work started as executive producer with Ram Gopal Varma Productions, after which she went on to production work with national and international film studios, setting up local productions for Warner Brothers India.^[2]

Pande was the Chief Creative Officer for Balaji Entertainment's 'Alt Entertainment'.^[3] She then moved to Viacom18 Motion Pictures as their Creative and Development Head. She also started 'Tipping Point' to focus on new talent and smaller budget movies for Viacom18 Movies. She sourced Raagini MMS for Alt Entertainment, and approved Gangs of Wasseypur, Shaintaan, Tanu Weds Manu and Pyaar Ka Punchnama amongst others for Viacom18 Motion Pictures.^[4]

Pande since then has been developing and producing films along with her husband Ramon Chibb in their company Manomay Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd.^[5]

Filmography[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997–2000	Various TVC's	Producer and Director
1997	Garwah A Home in the Himalayas	Director	Documentary for the UN NGO conference
1997	Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja	Producer Director	Show for the Indian Army
1998	Policy Maker	Producer and Director	Show for the Indian Army
2004	Hollywood Heroes with Ashok Amritraj	Producer and Director	13-episode series for National Geographic
2010	Cutting Carbon Footprints	Executive producer	Documentary for National Geographic India
2011	Shabri	Executive producer	RGV films production
2020	Kaali Khuhi	Producer

Viacom 18 Motion Pictures

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Pyaar Ka Panchnama	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures	Greenlight to Release
2011	Shaitan	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures	Greenlight to Release
2011	Tanu Weds Manu	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures	Greenlight to Release
2011	Shaitan	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures greenlit & developed the film	Greenlight to Release
2012	Kahani	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures	Was part of the HOD team that greenlit the acquisition of Kahani
2012	Gangs of Wasseypur	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures	Greenlighting to supervision of production
2013	Inkaar	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures	Greenlighting to Supervision of Production
2013	Chasmebadoor	Development and Creative Head for Viacom18 Motion Pictures	Development to supervision of production
2024	Fighter	Producer

References[edit]

^ "The Graduates". The Indian Express. 14 February 2010.
^ Anurag Kashyap Anku (21 September 2013). Gangs of Wasseypur. p. 10. ISBN 9789351361466.
^ "On The Right Track". Box Office India. 1 April 2011. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
^ "Five Balaji heads quit, CEO denies blame". Hindustan Times. 20 August 2010.
^ "List of Films Screened at the Celebrating Mountain Women Film Festival" (PDF).

External links[edit]

Anku Pande at IMDb

[http://indianexpress.com/-1] "The Graduates". The Indian Express. 14 February 2010.

[2] Anurag Kashyap Anku (21 September 2013). Gangs of Wasseypur. p. 10. ISBN 9789351361466.

[3] "On The Right Track". Box Office India. 1 April 2011. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.

[4] "Five Balaji heads quit, CEO denies blame". Hindustan Times. 20 August 2010.

[5] "List of Films Screened at the Celebrating Mountain Women Film Festival" (PDF).

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