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Uttkarsh Singh

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This Shark is one of the biggest investors in a fellow Shark company, A thread 🤯🧵 So as we all know he is Ronnie Screwvala! A Shark in Shark Tank India, but what's more interesting is he is the founder of Unilazer Ventures. Which has been actively involved in investing in Lenskart. Yes you heard that right!👇 Now let's see a little about Ronnie Screwvala's background! Ronnie Screwvala, born Rohinton Soli Screwvala on September 8, 1956. Ronnie is majorly famous for his startup Upgrad as we all must be familiar with. But very few people know that he is also a film producer, infact before starting upgrad he produced many movies and also founded UTV movies! Ronnie established his first business in cable television. He went into this business when there was only one channel in India Doordarshan He also established Lazer Brushes, a successful toothbrush manufacturing company. He Founded United Television (UTV) in 1990, becoming a leading production house He then Sold UTV to The Walt Disney Company in 2012 for an enterprise value of US$1.4 billion. He has also founded the Swades Foundation to empower rural communities in India. This is his whole Journey 👇 Some of the famous movies produced by Ronnie sir are: Rang De Basanti (2006) The Namesake (2006) Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006) Jodhaa Akbar (2008) A Wednesday (2008) Fashion (2008) Kaminey: The Scoundrels (2009) Udaan (2010) Delhi Belly (2011) Barfi! (2012) Chennai Express (2013) Phew 😌 The list goes on and on! It seems very likely that his produced movies have performed very well!

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