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|name = Ronnie Screwvala |image = Ronnie Screwvala 2007 - still 18374 crop.jpg |image_size = 150px |birth_date = 8 September 1962 (age 56) |birth_place = Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = Indian |ethnicity = |years_active = 1981- Present |home_town = |occupation = Founder UTV Group (Now Walt Disney India), Founder Trustee of Swades Foundation, Founder of Unilazer Ventures, Board of Advisor AIESEC India, Founder of RSVP Movies |spouse =Zarina Mehta[1] |children = Trishya Screwvala }} Rohinton Soli "Ronnie" Screwvala (born 8 September 1962) is a first generation Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has been named on Esquire's List of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century[2] and ranked 78 among the 100 most influential people in the world on the Time 100 (compiled by Time Magazine, 2009).[3] He was also listed amongst 25 Asia’s Most Powerful people by Fortune Magazine.[4] and titled the Jack Warner of India by Newsweek.[5] Based in Mumbai, India, Ronnie pioneered Cable Television, built a Media and Entertainment conglomerate (UTV Software Communications) that partnered with News Corp, 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company and Bloomberg and later in 2012 he divested the company to Disney for an enterprise value of US$1.4 billion.[6] From 2013 onwards he and his wife scaled their Non Profit The Swades Foundation whose goal is to work with a million people in rural India, empower them and move them out of poverty every 6–7 years and then move to another geography.[7] Has co-founded UpGrad which is into Online Education in the higher education and specialization sector,[8] built a Sports company (U Sports) spanning Football / E Sports and Kabaddi,[9] re-entered the media content space to build a creative content company in Movies and Digital Content (RSVP),[10] authored a Book titled Dream with Your Eyes Open[11] and through his investment company Unilazer Ventures he has been a significant private equity investor in Indian start ups with early stage investment and significant minority stakes.[12] Early life and educationScrewvala was born in Mumbai into a Parsi family. His father was an executive at the British firm J L Morrison and Smith & Nephew. Screwvala schooled and colleged in Mumbai at Cathedral and John Connon School and Sydenham College.[6] Screwvala had a keen interest in theatre while in school and acted in professional plays with Bombay theatre as a hobby. He played notable roles in Shakespeare’s Othello and Death of a Salesman.[13] Personal lifeScrewvala is married to Zarina Mehta, his second marriage. Zarina has been a co-founder in the media company UTV they founded, and now is the co-Trustee of their Philanthropic foundation; The Swades Foundation.[14] They live in Breach Candy, South Mumbai.[15] His first wife, Manjula Nanavati and Screwvala have one daughter, Trishya Screwvala, who runs her own Not For Profit, The Lighthouse Project,[16] and who is married to Sports Commentator Suhail Chandhok.[17] Early daysOpportunistic in the early days of his entrepreneurship, Screwvala founded a toothbrush manufacturing company.[14] Screwvala’s is also credited with pioneering Cable TV in India (1981) at a time when there was a single terrestrial channel (Doordarshan) and grew that to multiple cities and most of the hotel chains in India.[6] United Television (UTV) 1990-2012Screwvala founded UTV and over the period grew it into a media conglomerate spanning a leading movie studio, a Games Studio and creative content company[18] that went public and listed on stock exchanges in 2005[14] and into which Disney gradually took a substantial stake until he divested the whole company to them in 2012.[6] 2013 onwardsThe Swades FoundationAlong with his wife Zarina, Ronnie has founded The Swades Foundation whose goal is to lift a million people out of poverty. Presently, Swades is active in Raigad district in the state of Maharashtra in two thousand villages and involving half a million people. It is working on Water, Sanitation, Health, Education and the main focus is on Livelihood opportunities.[7] UpGradScrewvala co-founded UpGrad, which is one of the largest Online Education companies in India - focused on the higher Education and Specialization sector.[8] USportsScrewvala co-founded U Sports with a focus on three sports, Kabaddi a popular sport in India and around Asia (his team U Mumba is one of the top teams in the 12 team ProKabaddi League), E Sports and in Football where under the brand U Dreams the focus is to train and manage talent under various years of age for a sustained duration, and then manage their careers for the long term to play professionally in India and globally.[19] RSVPRSVP is Screwvala’s re-entry into the media and entertainment industry. This time is focussed on developing its own scripts and screenplays and working with directors that share the common vision of storytelling.[10] UnilazerUnilazer was incorporated by Screwvala as a private equity company that has made investments in the Indian new economy companies and start-ups, with early stage investments with significant minority stake as also bringing with him his entrepreneurial experience to the founders. The sectors in which Unilazer has invested range from e commerce to a leading online eyewear company in India, and from AI and Bots to Agriculture to Microhousing Finance.[20][21] FilmographyFilmsThe following is a list of films produced/ co-produced by Screwvala[22]
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Awards
References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_this-parsi-cook-s-secret-lies-in-her-grandma-s-recipes_1443867|title=This Parsi cook’s secret lies in her grandma’s recipes|author=Humaira Ansari|publisher=DNA India|date=27 September 2010|accessdate=8 March 2013}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Screwvala, Ronnie}}2. ^{{cite news|title=Tata, Ambani, Mittal among most influential of 21st century|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/tata-ambani-mittal-among-most-influential-of-21st-century/articleshow/3499941.cms|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Economic Times|date=18 September 2008}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Moot world's most influential; Sonia, Tata in top 100: Report|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/moot-worlds-most-influential-sonia-tata-in-top-100-report/articleshow/4456054.cms|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Economic Times|date=27 April 2009}} 4. ^{{cite news|last1=Lall|first1=Pawan|title=Bollywood's disruptor|url=https://www.fortuneindia.com/people/bollywoods-disruptor/101053|accessdate=12 May 2018|date=5 May 2011|language=en}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Bollywood takes on Hollywood: Newsweek|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood-takes-on-hollywood-newsweek/story-aSiFDGXYCONAWUC3CKxz6O.html|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=Hindustan Times|date=5 September 2007|language=en}} 6. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last1=Subramanian|first1=Anusha|title=Behind Ronnie Screwvala's Rs 2,000-cr Walt Disney deal|url=https://www.businesstoday.in/management/leadership/ronnie-screwvala-sells-utv-to-walt-disney-for-rs-2000-cr/story/17395.html|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=Business Today|date=8 December 2011}} 7. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Garfinkel|first1=Perry|title=After Building a Media Empire, What’s Next? Lifting One Million From Poverty|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/world/asia/india-ronnie-screwvala-poverty-swades-foundation.html|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The New York Times|date=30 December 2016}} 8. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Bansal|first1=Varsha|title=Ronnie Screwvala to infuse Rs 100 crore in UpGrad's B2B segment|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/money/ronnie-screwvala-to-infuse-rs-100-crore-in-upgrads-b2b-segment/articleshow/59434119.cms|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Economic Times|date=4 July 2017}} 9. ^{{cite news|last1=Pal|first1=Shubhodeep|title=How eSports got screen time in India|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/how-esports-got-screen-time-in-india/article22430148.ece|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Hindu|date=12 January 2018|language=en-IN}} 10. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Laghate|first1=Gaurav|title=Former UTV boss, Ronnie Screwvala back in action with new film studio RSVP, keen to build creative team in-house|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/former-utv-boss-ronnie-screwvala-back-in-action-with-new-film-studio-rsvp-keen-to-build-creative-team-in-house/articleshow/61874947.cms|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Economic Times|date=1 December 2017}} 11. ^{{cite news|last1=Screwvala|first1=Ronnie|title=Excerpt: Dream With Your Eyes Open: An Entrepreneurial Journey|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/VdaobdLKuegFFlD5wOOdQL/Excerpt-Dream-With-Your-Eyes-Open-An-Entrepreneurial-Journ.html|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=Livemint|date=29 March 2015}} 12. ^{{cite news|last1=Kazmin|first1=Amy|title=India’s tycoons and a new breed of family office|url=https://www.ft.com/content/39d9c776-a9cb-11e7-ab66-21cc87a2edde|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=Financial Times|date=20 October 2017}} 13. ^{{cite news|last1=Bhatia|first1=Rahul|title=The Interpreter|url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/interpreter|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=Caravan Magazine|date=1 June 2012}} 14. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/73b3551a-d98d-11e2-98fa-00144feab7de.html#axzz3vuvZoiHT|author=James Crabtree|title=At home: Ronnie Screwvala|work=Financial Times|date=28 June 2013|accessdate=12 May 2015}} 15. ^{{cite news|author=Shirin Kumaana-Wadia|url=http://parsikhabar.net/individuals/ronnie-screwvala-bollywood-to-hollywood/1015/|title=Ronnie Screwvala: Bollywood to Hollywood|publisher=Parsi Khabar|date=25 June 2008|accessdate=8 March 2013}} 16. ^{{cite news|last1=VENKATRAMAN|first1=ARUN|title=Lighthouse full of hope|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/150426/commentary-sunday-chronicle/article/lighthouse-full-hope|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=Deccan Chronicle|date=26 April 2015|language=en}} 17. ^{{cite news|title=Trishya Screwvala to tie the knot with beau Suhail Chandok - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/trishya-screwvala-to-tie-the-knot-with-beau-suhail-chandok/articleshow/56622157.cms|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Times of India|date=29 January 2017}} 18. ^{{cite book|last1=Gopal|first1=Sangita|title=Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema|date=2012|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226304274|page=75|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sVO6GMT_OIAC|language=en}} 19. ^{{cite news|last1=Sikdar|first1=Shubhomoy|title=15 boys fulfil dream, to train with German football clubs|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/15-boys-fulfil-dream-to-train-with-german-football-clubs/article7612192.ece|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Hindu|date=3 September 2015|language=en-IN}} 20. ^{{cite news|title=Ronnie Screwvala’s Unilazer Ventures hikes stake in online insurance comparison platform Easypolicy|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/sme/ronnie-screwvalas-unilazer-ventures-hikes-stake-in-online-insurance-comparison-platform-easypolicy/1161096/|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Financial Express|date=9 May 2018}} 21. ^{{cite news|last1=Vignesh|first1=J.|title=Ratan Tata, Ronnie Screwvala invest in artificial intelligence startup Niki|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/ratan-tata-ronnie-screwvala-invest-in-artificial-intelligence-startup-niki/articleshow/52346254.cms|accessdate=12 May 2018|work=The Economic Times|date=20 May 2016}} 22. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780098/ Ronnie Screwvala] imdb 10 : Parsi people from Mumbai|1956 births|Living people|Film producers from Mumbai|Indian film distributors|Indian television producers|Filmfare Awards winners|Tamil film producers|20th-century Indian businesspeople|21st-century Indian businesspeople |
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