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Rajshri Media

digital media company in Mumbai, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7286441 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rajshri Media (P) Limited is a digital entertainment and new media arm of Rajshri Group. The Rajshri.com portal was launched in November 2006 by releasing online Barjatya-produced Hindi movie Vivah, followed by Hattrick, Life in a Metro and Blue Umbrella among others. The company plans to reach its audience through all the four screens: cinema, PC, mobile, TV.

History

On 15 August 1947, Tarachand Barjatya established Rajshri Pictures (P) Ltd., the film distribution division of Rajshri Group. Its first release was Aarti which was followed by the release of Dosti, a non star-cast film. Dosti was presented the National Award for the Best Hindi Film of the Year (1964) and it also won 5 Filmfare Awards.

Productions

Web and Mobile TV Shows

Rajshri Media has taken initiatives in creating shows for both web and mobile. Akbar Birbal Remixed is India's 1st show for web and mobile. It has in total 90 episodes. The episodes are three minutes in length and are available in SMS, MMS, video and audio formats. The content will be released initially on web and mobile and subsequently formatted for TV, home video and Radio.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Rajshri Media” as digital media company in Mumbai, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rajshri, Media and digital.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 1947, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rajshri, Media and digital providing the first useful test.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7286441. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 1947 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rajshri Media” 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.