Private company

Reliance Entertainment

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Indian media and entertainment company

Reliance Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian media and entertainment company. It is a division of Reliance Group, handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms.2 It is part of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

2005Founded1

Reliance Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian media and entertainment company. It is a division of Reliance Group, handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms. The company was founded on 15 February 2005, as two entities, namely Reliance Big Entertainment and BIG Pictures. Four years later the two companies were merged into Reliance BIG Pictures in 2009, and the company's name was changed to Reliance Entertainment the following year.2

Corporate structure

Reliance Entertainment is part of a group headed by Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. 46 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Navi Mumbai
    • Reliance Entertainment Mumbai
    • IM Global Subsidiary · Los Angeles, California, United States
    • Reliance Communications Subsidiary · Navi Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED Subsidiary · 100% · Navi Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE TELECOM LIMITED Subsidiary · Navi Mumbai, India
    • Reliance Games Subsidiary · Mumbai
    • Reliance Infrastructure Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE DEFENCE LIMITED Subsidiary · 100% · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE POWER TRANSMISSION LIMITED Subsidiary · 100% · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE VELOCITY LIMITED Subsidiary · 100% · Mumbai, India
      • BSES RAJDHANI POWER LIMITED Subsidiary · 51% · New Delhi, India
      • DASSAULT RELIANCE AEROSPACE LIMITED Subsidiary · 51% · Mumbai, India
      • BSES YAMUNA POWER LIMITED Subsidiary · Delhi, India
      • DELHI AIRPORT METRO EXPRESS PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · New Delhi, India
      • DS TOLL ROAD LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • GF TOLL ROAD PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • HK TOLL ROAD PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • JAI AMMUNITION LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • JR TOLL ROAD PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • KM TOLL ROAD PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • MUMBAI METRO ONE PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • MUMBAI METRO TRANSPORT PVT LTD Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • NK TOLL ROAD LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • PS TOLL ROAD PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE AEROSTRUCTURE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE DEFENCE INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE DEFENCE SYSTEMS & TECH LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE DEFENCE SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE HELICOPTERS LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE LAND SYSTEMS LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE NAVAL SYSTEMS LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • RELIANCE PROPULSION SYSTEMS LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • and 6 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Reliance Entertainment reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Reliance forayed into the largely untapped video rental market in India by launching Bigflix.

The company plans to launch TV Channels.

On 15 July 2009, Reliance and Steven Spielberg announced a joint venture with funding of $825 million.

Big 92.7 FM launched a radio station in Singapore considering 8% of the population residing there is Indian.

On 5 April 2010, Reliance acquired a 50% stake in Codemasters.

On 28 May 2010, the company achieved the first ever Hollywood box office market with the release of Kites.

Reliance co-produced director Steven Spielberg's film War Horse, which was released worldwide on Christmas Day in 2011. Many other projects from the director also have the company as a producer.

In January 2012, it was announced that Reliance DreamWorks movies garnered 11 Oscar nominations.

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In November 2014, the company announced plans to begin the acquisition process of the North American and European mobile game studios of DreamWorks Studios in early 2015.

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Leadership

Who has led Reliance Entertainment, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

2010201520202025

Products and brands

  • animation
  • film
  • video game
  • web series

Listed on Wikidata.1

Current

Storyteller Holding Co., LLC (Amblin Partners) (investor, 20%)

Amblin Entertainment – Family-Friendly Label

DreamWorks Pictures – Mature Label

Amblin Television – Television Division

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Storyteller Distribution Co. LLC – Copyright Holder

Reliance Animation (formerly BIG Animation) – (Airtight Info media)

Reliance Home Video & Games – Home Video Division

Reliance BIG Music – Record Label Division

BIG Star Entertainment Awards

Jump Games (ParadoX Studios)

Lava Bear Films

Riverstone Pictures

Reliance Games – Mobile Games Development Studio

Reliance Media Works Ltd

Reliance ND Studios

Big Synergy – Non Fiction TV Production Division

Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Lowry Digital)

Reliance Media Works Studio – Filmcity Mumbai

Talenthouse

Window Seat Films

Digital Domain

Former

IM Global – 80% sold to Tang Media Partners in 2016; merged with Open Road Films into Global Road Entertainment in 2017

AutoMatik (joint venture with Entertainment One)

IM Global Television – Television division

Codemasters (29% owned until January 2021)

Phantom Films – sold to Madhu Mantena and Sheetal Talwar in 2022; renamed to Phantom Studios

From Wikipedia’s article on Reliance Entertainment, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 2005Founded Founded1

Sources

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