SUDHIR PRAGJEE
Director: Business Affairs

Sudhir Pragjee qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and is a director of Videovision Entertainment (Pty) Ltd and is responsible for the Business Affairs portfolio in the Videovision Entertainment Group of Companies.  During his tenure at the company, he has been the financial controller and/or executive producer on more than 75 feature films and thirteen television productions, and has controlled budgets totalling more than R1 billion.

Pragjee has significant experience in radio, providing strategic direction as a past board member of the JSE-listed Kagiso Media, East Coast Radio and OFM. He previously served in the following capacities until his resignation in 2006:

- Chairman of the Kwa-Zulu Natal based East Coast Radio
- Chairman of the Free State based, OFM
- A director of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed company, Kagiso Media Ltd
- Member of Audit Committee - Kagiso Media
- Member of Remuneration Committee - Kagiso Media

He is also a former director of M&G Media, the publishers of The Mail & Guardian newspaper.

Pragjee is also responsible for Videovision Entertainment's property investments, including the flagship development, The Pearls of Umhlanga as well as Cape Town Film Studios and the proposed Durban Film City.

Pragjee has been executive producer on most of the 100 films produced by Videovision Entertainment.

Pragjee is also active in the live entertainment ventures of Videovision Entertainment and oversaw the promotion of the Amitabh Bachchan's Jumma Chooma stadium extravaganzas in South Africa in 1991, Gloria Estefan's and Michael Jackson's tour of South Africa in 1997 and the Now Or Never Live! Show which took place in Durban on December 28, 2002 and featured ten of Bollywood's top stars, including the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Karisma Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty and Rani Mukherjee. Now Or Never Live! was one of the largest concerts ever in the history of Indian entertainment in the world.

Pragjee also plays an active role in film industry bodies and has served as treasurer on the South African Film and Television Institute and on the National Executive Committee of Independent Producer's Organisation.

He has been the financial director of all the Videovision Entertainment Group of companies since 1988. He is chairman and founding trustee of the Into The Light Foundation which has brought sight to 700 indigent blind people at no cost to the individuals and is the president of the Durban-based religious and cultural organization, the Gujarati Hindu Sanskruti Kendra which has among its many projects a retirement home for the needy which is currently being built.