Variety<\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nUniversal Music India has signed a definitive agreement to buy a 30% equity stake in Excel Entertainment, valuing the Mumbai-based film and digital studio at about Rs 2,400 crore ($267 million). As part of the deal, the acquiring company will get global distribution rights for all original soundtracks from the acquired company\u2019s upcoming films and series.<\/p>\n
Under the agreement, the acquiring company is expected to set up a dedicated music label for Excel\u2019s projects with global distribution. Universal Music Publishing Group will become the acquired company\u2019s exclusive music publishing partner. The arrangement also allows Universal\u2019s artists to collaborate on future Excel productions.<\/p>\n
Devraj Sanyal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music India and South Asia and senior Vice President of Strategy for Africa, the Middle East and Asia, will join Excel Entertainment\u2019s board of directors. Ritesh Sidhwani\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Farhan Akhtar\u00a0<\/span>will continue overseeing creative direction and content decisions.<\/p>\nThe transaction involved multiple advisors. AZB & Partners and KPMG advised Universal Music Group, while Morgan Stanley, Khaitan & Co., and Ernst & Young advised Excel Entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.socialsamosa.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group\u2019s Indian unit has acquired a minority stake in Bollywood production house Excel Entertainment, securing global rights to future original soundtracks, according to Variety. Universal Music India has signed a definitive agreement to buy a 30% equity stake in Excel Entertainment, valuing the Mumbai-based film and digital studio at about Rs 2,400 crore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2222471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[419552,360133,429866,46171],"class_list":["post-2222470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-farhan-akhtar","tag-music-labels","tag-ritesh-sidhwani","tag-universal-music-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Universal-Music-India-takes-minority-stake-in-Excel-Entertainment-valued.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222472,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222470\/revisions\/2222472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}