Kishore Lulla | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Years active | 1980–present |
Kishore Lulla is the Chairman of EROS International Plc, the first Indian M&E company listed on NYSE stock exchange and a board member for the School of Film at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Lulla is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Young Presidents’ Organization. He is the Director of Eros International Ltd. since April 11, 2006. He is also the Executive Director of Eros International Media Limited since the year of September 28, 2009, the company listed in BSE as well as NSE stock exchanges. He was the Director at Eros International Plc since 2005 and Executive Chairman since January 2010.
Lulla attended the School of Business and Law at the Government & Law College, Mumbai.
As Executive Chairman of the Eros Group Kishore, started working for Eros when he was 16. He teamed with his father and went to UK. He has expanded and popularized Bollywood films in U.K. U.S. and the Middle East and entered newer markets like Latin America, South Korea and America under Lulla Bollywood films.
He is the founder of Bollywood For You (B4U), that is recognized as India's biggest global network of Hindi movies and music. He co-founded Eros International Ltd, in London in 1988. He has been in the launch of the UK’s first 24- hour Bollywood digital satellite and pay TV channel on the BSkyB platform.
As per The Sunday Times rich list released in 2011, Kishore Lulla was among the richest Indian with a net worth of 240 million pounds and with a family fortune of 206 million pounds. In 2015, Kishore Lulla was also part of the Sun Valley Conference.
In 2010, Kishore Lulla and his family set up the Eros Foundation for the education of children and worked to bring equality for women in workplace.
Lulla received the Entertainment Visionary Award by the Asia Society of Southern California for promoting Indian cinema.