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Pooja Entertainment

Indian film production company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ48989713 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pooja Entertainment is an Indian production and distribution company established by Vashu Bhagnani in 1986. It is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company is known for producing the comedies: Coolie No. 1 (1995), Hero No. 1 (1997), and Biwi No.1 (1999). It has produced over 40 films as of 2024.

History

Pooja Entertainment was founded as Pooja Films by Vashu Bhagnani in 1986.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Pooja Entertainment” as indian film production company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pooja, Entertainment and Indian.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1995, 1997, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pooja, Entertainment and Indian providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48989713. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 1995, 1997 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pooja Entertainment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.