Corporate Profile
Bajaj Films, based in Toronto, was originally incorporated in 1987 in Ontario, Canada. In 2002 it was renewed under the name of Bajaj Films Production Ltd. Presently it operates in winter months in India and summer months in Canada. In this way it is able to help Canadian producers in India and Indian producers in Canada.
Bajaj Films started with development of feature films and documentaries. The first two projects were "Geeks In Love" & "White Paper". Both projects received funding from several Canadian agencies such as Telefilm, NFB, OFDC & FUND. "Geeks" was developed with co-producer Debbie Nightingale.
Jay Bajaj owner of the Bajaj Films was able to secure co-production agreement for "White Paper" from France and U.S. at Cannes Film Festival and A.F.M. In 1991 he wrote and produced a stage play in Toronto titled "Respect" at Poor Alex Theatre.
In 1995, he produced an independently financed feature film in Toronto titled "Fools Die Fast" directed by Gemini Award winner actor James Purcell. The film was invited to 11 international film festivals.
In 1996, Jay went to India and worked on Deepa Mehta's "Fire" as a Producer during the entire pre-production. In 1998 he produced Canadian Film Institute graduate Yen Cui's feature film "Yellow Wedding" which was shot in Hong Kong & Toronto.
In between, Bajaj Films was involved in the development of another feature film "An Unsuitable Priest" with Parallel Films of Ireland & Sudhir Mishra Productions of India. It also produced some corporate videos and commercials in Canada for producers from Hong Kong and India. Jay also published a poetry book-"Erato", written by Toronto actor Heidi van Palleske.
In 2001-02 Bajaj Films produced a one-hour TV documentary "I Want to See the Music" for Vision TV of Canada. It was aired on March 14 & 17 / 2003 and on the documentary Channel in January 2006 in the U.S. The feature version of this documentary is titled "Qawwali-A Musical Journey" was released at Bloor Cinema in Toronto on August 17/ 2003 along with the soundtrack cd release. The film has been aired on Documentary Channel in the U.S. several times.
Bajaj Films joined hands with Srinivas Krishna's company Divani Films www.divanifilms.com and incorporated Bajaj Krishna Ltd. in 2004. It has produced:
CANADA GROOVES, a one hour documentary for CBC's Opening Night that aired 2004-05 season.
The company produced 60 episodes of INTIMATE YOGA (www.intimateyoga.ca) for SUNTV of Toronto. The show is broadcast at 6am on weekdays. The series has been bought by One: The Body, Mind and Sprit. The series is still airing on both channels.
In 2006 it produced a 13 half hour series titles WHEN THE MUSIC SPEAKS about the world music scene in Canada for APTN and Sun TV in Canada.
Bajaj Films is developing several projects in Canada as well as in India with Baba Digital www.babadigital.com of the U.S. in 2006