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Rohit Khattar

Rohit Khattar is Founder Chairman of Cinestaan Entertainment Private Limited. Cinestaan Entertainment shall produce feature films as well as foray into television. Cinestaan Entertainment is also committed to preserve and celebrate India's cinema heritage through an oral histories television series on the living legends of cinema. Its first subsidiary, Cinestaan Film Company has been launched with a 3 film agreement with filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's production house, ROMP. Several other projects are in development.Khattar is also Chairman of Mumbai Mantra Media Limited. Part of the $16.5 billion Mahindra Group, Mumbai Mantra is evaluating opportunities in content and infrastructure in the domestic as well as international media and entertainment space. The first step in this direction was the forging of a partnership with the Sundance Institute founded by Robert Redford. This included the Mumbai Mantra | Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab in India and the Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards, awarded annually at the Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah.At the end of this 3-year relationship, a new initiative, the Mumbai Mantra CineRise '100 Storytellers a Year' was announced which shall help nurture 100 screenwriters annually.Khattar is also founder chairman of Old World Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. (O.W.H.), which is India's largest live entertainment organiser. O.W.H. operates 2 performing arts and convention centres, 2 hotels and over 40 restaurants.