Aarti Shetty

Aarti Shetty is the daughter of the famous businessman Manmohan Shetty Manmohan Shetty, one of the famous Indian film pro >> Read More... , former owner of Adlabs. In 2007 Aarti with her sister Pooja started their own production company known as Walkwater Media. Aarti has assisted Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma is a famed Indian film director an >> Read More... on Bhoot, Shimit Amin Shimit Amin is a well-known director and is famila >> Read More... on Ab Tak Chhappan, pursued a six-month course in filmmaking from the New York University; and has also assisted with Karan Johar Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities i >> Read More... on Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. Aarti and her company had their first taste of success in the year 2010 with the success of the low budget sleeper hit, ‘Tere Bin Laden’ that had a Box Office Box Office is a Tamil entertainment TV serial whic >> Read More... collection of 8 crores. The sisters look onto bringing out quality based content and they literally take six months to analyze the scripts before they give their approval. In the last few decades, women have flourished in the entertainment business- which up until then, patriarchal in nature. Aarti and her team have produced three films after ‘Tere Bin Laden’ namely Rita, Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive, and The Zoya Factor. Aarti played a small surprise cameo in the movie ‘Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive’ too.

Besides making movies Aarti has also helped her father in the completion of his new project of creating an Entertainment theme park known as ‘Adlabs Imagica,’ located near Lonavala. After Manmohan Shetty sold his company to Anil Ambani Anil Ambani is an Indian business executive and in >> Read More... he was asked to go on a holiday with his daughters but he went to the USA with Aarti to work on Imagica, he visited Disneyland and Universal Studios and built Imagica based on these parks. Working for the making of Imagica was natural for Aarti, the family's daredevil and veteran of many intimidating rides like ‘The Scream Machine’ and ‘Nitro,’ in Imagica. At Imagica the sisters have divided their responsibilities according to their capabilities, Aarti is the creative director and is concerned with aspects such as deciding which rides to include in the park, developing concepts, and selecting the right technology for them.

Aarti studied at Jamnabai Narsee in Juhu. Besides her father, Aarti also acknowledges the instrumental role of their mother, Shashikala. Her main childhood memories include watching films and seeing her father’s friends, filmmakers like Prakash Jha, Govind Nihalani, and etc. visit her house. She had once said that she and her sister were not as camaraderie as they are now. Their bond grew stronger only after Aarti left for university (Purdue University in the United States of America). Today, the sisters have such a bond that they complete each other's sentences and crack up jokes at childhood memories. Living with her parents at their house in Juhu, she is currently putting final touches to a hotel and water park, which will emerge in the vicinity of Imagica Park. Imagica is the first time that Aarti has worked with her father.

In the near future, their Media Company has a filled plate of movies like the biopic of the legendary hockey player, Dhyan Chand. Movies like Sharmaji Ka Atom Bomb are already signed with famous actors like Anil Kapoor Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumb >> Read More... . Besides these, they have four more stories which are needed to be made properly. Aarti wants to direct a movie under the name of Walkwater Media after she relinquishes her responsibilities at the theme park.