Chennai : Synergy Group is an international business organisation with offices in five countries across the globe. The group’s portfolio includes Shipping, Healthcare, Information Technology, Microbrewery and Food chain. Synergy group’s latest venture into the Indian Entertainment Industry is GlobalUnited Media Company Pvt Ltd under the able leadership of Mr. Prem Menon. The company’s vision is to provide quality content to the family audience.
Mr. Prem Menon heads the non-shipping business of Synergy groups and formed Global United Media Company drawing from his vast experience of over two decades in Media. The company’s director was instrumental in building several TV Channels since the privatisation of Indian Television in many languages from Asianet to Zee Tamizh.
Renowned Producer-Director and former president of the South India Film Chamber of Commerce and the current president of the Tamil Film Producers Council, Mr. Kothanda Ramiah, addressed as Keyaar by the film fraternity brings his knowledge and experience as the other director of the company. Keyaar is an authority on regional films since the early eighties and is well known for his innovations in the areas of Film Production, Direction, Exhibition and most importantly Film Distribution.
Mr. Vivek Thomas Varghese is the Executive Producer of Global United Media Company. Vivek Thomas started his career with Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd where he handled creative and content for MTV India. He provided brand solutions for Walt Disney India Pvt Ltd. Vivek is an awardee of international ProMax BDA, US and Singapore. After his assignment at Disney UTV Mumbai, he has joined Global United Media.
Global United Media Company will foray into regional film markets in the areas of Film production. The plan also includes co-production with established banners, Film Acquisition which includes outright buyouts of first copies of films and Film distribution in its vision to expand towards a pan Indian presence. The company’s headquarters is in Chennai.
The company’s maiden feature film project has a powerful story penned by Bobby and Sanjay, the top writers of Malayalam film industry with their claim to fame being films like Traffic and How old are you?.V K Prakash is the director of this film whose credentials include several Ad films, box office hits like Beautiful, Trivandrum Lodge and the critically acclaimed Natholi Oru Cheriya Meenalla. The film has a powerful star cast and is creating a buzz in the film circles as a project with immense potential.
The company sees film opportunities in areas, formats and platforms never fully explored before. Global United Media’s next offering will be in Tamil. The company is engaged in talks with various parties of the film industry in its endeavour to entertain the Tamil audience and thereby launch its banner. Watch out for the company and their films that will take you by storm.
