Tiger Baby Films


Tiger Baby Films is an Indian film production company owned by film directors Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti. The company was founded in October 2015.

Debut film

Tiger Baby Films made its debut production with the musical-drama Gully Boy.The movie premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2019. Released on 15 February 2019, it is directed by Zoya Akhtar.
Gully Boy is co-produced by Tiger Baby Films, and Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment Productions.
The movie won the Best Feature Film Award at Asian Academy Creative Award.
Gully Boy was selected as India’s official entry for the 92nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. However, the movie didn’t make it to the final shortlist of 10 International Feature Films announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Web series

Tiger Baby Films premiered its first Netflix film, Lust Stories, on 15 June 2018. The Indian anthology film consisted of four short film segments directed by Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar. Lust Stories was nominated for International Emmy Award 2019 for Best TV Movie or Miniseries.
The production house released its next web series, Made in Heaven, on Amazon Prime Video India on 8 March 2019. The web series starred Arjun Mathur and Sobhita Dhulipulia as the protagonists – Karan and Tara, who run a wedding planning agency by the titular name Made in Heaven.
The web series is co-produced by Tiger Baby Films and Excel Entertainment. It is created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, and the duo has written the screenplay along with scriptwriter and director Alankrita Shrivastava. It is directed by Zoya Akhtar, Nitya Mehra, Alankrita Shrivastava, and Prashant Nair.

Upcoming projects

After releasing the first season of Made in Heaven, the production house began working on the second season of MIH in April 2019 for Amazon Prime Video. Tiger Baby Films is also co-producing Ghost Stories, a sequel to Lust Stories, with Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP Pictures. The four short films' anthology is directed by Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar. The shooting for Akhtar’s segment began in August 2019.
Ghost Stories is slated for a 1 January 2020 release on Netflix.