Beyond Dreams is one of the foremost content creation and communication company in India, headquartered in Mumbai, India enabling every step in the entertainment value chain from conceptualization, development, production, and marketing of top rated scripted and non-scripted original IPs.
Founded in 2007, The company operates its business across content and communication through three of its subsidiaries - Inspire Films, Proto Entertainment and Gold Dust Pictures has produced over 10,000 hours of cutting – edge content including 40 “Brand Defining” scripted and non-scripted shows for leading Indian broadcasters over the years including Star Plus, Colors, Sony Entertainment Television, Sab TV, Life OK, Channel V, Star Gold, Cartoon Network, Disney, Sun TV, Surya TV and others.
Content produced by Beyond Dreams and its subsidiaries, over the past decade plus period of prolific operations, has regularly won multiple accolades and over a hundred national & international awards. The company provides communication driven marketing solutions to various corporations and brands. Beyond Dreams is currently producing multiple television and digital projects.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Yash A Patnaik
Founder & Managing DirectorFollowing a graduate degree from Cuttack’s Ravenshaw College and a postgraduate course from Pune’s Symbiosis Institute of Journalism and Communications, Yash kicked off his career in 1996 as a print journalist. Over 24 years, he has worked with various news organisations, broadcasters and production houses and produced over 20,000 hours of popular content and formats.
In 2007, Yash founded Beyond Dreams Entertainment with his wife and colleague Mamta Patnaik to produce television content. In the last 13 years the company has produced over 30 top rated scripted series for leading Indian broadcasters. The company has been producing top rated content across genre, formats and languages. Some of the landmark IPs produced by Yash are Sadda Haq, Kuchh Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi, Ek Veer Ki Ardaas Veera, Nagarjun, Ishq Main Marjawan, Jana Na Dilse Door, CIA and Secret Diaries. After huge success in the television content space Yash expanded the footprint of Beyond Dreams to feature films, web series, marketing, advertising, e-commerce and licensing. He is currently building multiple value chains for Beyond Dreams with its three subsidiaries - Inspire Films, Influence Beyond and Proto Entertainment.
Content produced by Yash have received over 60 national and international awards. Yash has been a jury member of the prestigious International EMMY Awards and the Indian Telly Awards.
Mamta Yash Patnaik
Co-Founder & Chief CreativeBeyond Dreams Group
After a masters in Mass Communication from St Xavier’s in Mumbai, Mamta began her career in advertising with Trikaya Grey. During her stint with the agency she played a key role in the films department and worked on many popular campaigns of Pantene, Saffola, Kinetic and others. In the subsequent years she worked with leading media houses and broadcasters like Zee TV, UTV, Nimbus and Colors TV as a Creative Director and created many popular fiction series. During this time Mamta wrote over 2000 episodes of top rated shows for leading broadcasters like Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony Entertainment Television.
Mamta co founded Beyond Dreams Entertainment with Yash Patnaik in 2007. In the past thirteen years she had created and written over 30 popular fiction series, web series and a feature film for Beyond Dreams. Some of her creations are Sadda Haq, Kuchh Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi, Ek Veer Ki Ardaas Veera, Ishq Main Marjawan, Jana Na Dil Se Door. She is currently writing and producing multiple web series for leading Indian OTTs.
Amit Sen
President - Strategy & OperationsA Master of Business Administration from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, Amit has over 20 years of hands-on experience in managing, developing and optimizing the Technology and Operations functions in the Media and Entertainment domain. A Strategic business management professional with over three decades of cross functional experience in streamlining operations, invigorating businesses and enhancing productivity across assignments has been Amit’s fundamental focus. His success in leading, managing & developing the business function(s) through costs sustenance and augmenting ROI. Specialized in strategic business planning and development, marketing, operations and technology, drive strategic initiatives and provide tactical business solutions. His last assignment had been with the Times Television Network (The Times Group) as Associate Vice President – Operations and Technology.
Sanket Vanzara
Project Producer
Sunil Kurup
Vice President - Commercials & OperationsCreative Collaborators
Rajat Aroraa
Screenwriter - ShowrunnerProfile: Rajat Aroraa is one of the most successful and popular screenwriters Indian film and television industry for over two decades. His speciality lies in punch-packed dialogues and he has delivered a spate of hit movies like Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, The Dirty Picture, Kick, Gabbar Is Back, Badshaho, Bluff Master, Thalaivi and Taxi No. 9211. Rajat is currently developing multiple web series for Beyond Dreams.
Soumendra Padhi
Showrunner - DirectorSoumendra is one of the most sought-after directors in OTT space today. His Netflix series Jamtara is considered one of the best Indian series of Netflix.. Prior to Jamtara he has directed many television commercials. His debut feature film Budhia – Born To Run starring Manoj Bajpayee earned him multiple national and international awards. Soumendra is currently developing a feature film and a web series for Beyond Dreams.
Robbie Grewal
Director and Ad Film-makerRobbie is an advertising veteran with over 200 ad films and campaigns to his credit. Some of his popular campaigns are Hero, Adidas, OLX, McDonald, Star Sports, India Terrain, and Volkswagen. Robbie has directed four feature films including critically acclaimed thrillers Samay, starring Sushmita Sen and Sushant Singh and R.A.W (Romeo, Akbar, Walter) starring John Abraham, Jackie Shroff, Mouni and Sikandar Kher. Robbie is developing two web series for Beyond Dreams as the Showrunner.
Apurva Asrani
Writer-EditorApurva is a National Award, Filmfare Award & Screen Award winning filmmaker based in Goa, India. He has written the human rights drama Aligarh (2016), the courtroom drama Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors (2020), has co-written & edited the film Shahid (2013), has edited the popular gangster film Satya (1998) & also the webseries Made In Heaven (2019). Apurva is currently developing and writing a web series for Beyond Dreams.
Piyush Jha
Novelist and ScreenwriterPiyush has been called Dashiell Hammett India. Piyush has authored many bestselling novels including Mumbaistan, Compass Box Killer and Anti-Social Network. His third book "Anti- Social Network", from his Inspector Virkar Crime-Thriller series of books was adapted into web series Chakravyuh - An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller (2021). The show has been critically successful and rose to the no.1 spot on the charts in its first week itself on MX Player.
