Opifera Tech Ventures

India has never run out of stories.
It has run out of ways to make them.

So we built one: an engine that carries a story from research to screen, and a home for the stories it makes.

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The engine

Build the technology. Use it on our own stories. Own everything we make.

Opifera builds a production system for India's stories and uses it to make, own and release original work. The technology stays in-house; the stories go out to the world. That is the idea the whole company rests on.

01

Human-led storytelling

Writers, directors, composers and editors lead every stage, credited by name.

02

Research-led interpretation

Every story begins in sources, manuscripts and scholarship, not in assumptions.

03

AI-enabled production

The engine does the logistics, so the craft can do the work.

04

Owned distribution

We release our own stories, learn from our own audience, and improve the engine.

The loop

One pipeline. Every story makes the next one better.

Research→Story→ CineCouncil AI→Original IP→ CineCouncil OTT→Audience→ What to make next↺
The studio
Cinecouncil

The studio identity the public meets: the production engine, the streaming platform, and the first original series.

CineCouncil AI
In build

CineCouncil AI

The production pipeline: script, previsualisation, character and world, shot production, score, voice, edit and delivery. People at every stage. Real workflows already in daily use on our own productions.

cinecouncil.ai ↗
CineCouncil OTT
Built · web

CineCouncil OTT

The platform. We own the shelf: a home for our originals and for the directors we commission. Web platform built; mobile app in build.

cinecouncil.io ↗
DharmaKatha
Episode 1 complete

DharmaKatha

A research-led cinematic Itihaas series, directed and produced in-house on our own pipeline. Season 1 written; Episode 1 complete.

@cinecouncil.ott ↗
What the work has done

Shown, not promised.

4.3M
people reached organically on Instagram by DharmaKatha in its first 14 days.
8
stages in one pipeline, from script to delivery in every cut, ratio and language.
1
engine behind every brand on this page.

Source: Opifera marketing analytics, organic reach, Instagram @cinecouncil.ott.

One engine, many outlets

What the engine also makes.

A series needs a cast, a score and somewhere to play. We built all three for ourselves, and then found that each one had a market.

Kathaa: House of Stories
Pipeline live

Kathaa

House of Stories

Advertising and creative production for brands, made in-house by the studio behind our series. Films, monthly creative and every additional language from one master.

Kathaa is a brand of Opifera Tech Ventures Private Limited
The Kirdaar Co.
Pipeline live

The Kirdaar Co.

India's character studio

An owned cast of original characters, born in a story, with a canon, continuity across a season, and a rights record for every character.

The Kirdaar Co. is a brand of Opifera Tech Ventures Private Limited
Bandish: Voices with a signature
Pipeline live

Bandish

Voices with a signature

A label that signs songs, not singers. Original songs by human composers and lyricists, voiced by consenting, contracted and paid session singers. The DharmaKatha score is complete.

Bandish is a brand of Opifera Tech Ventures Private Limited
Bazoom
Private beta

Bazoom

Point. Know. Watch.

Point a phone at any screen and it names the film. Frames are matched on the device; footage never leaves it. Android first.

Bazoom is a product of Opifera Tech Ventures Private Limited
Our first feature film · in development

Baarah बारह

A father who is forgetting, a son who stopped coming home, and twelve lights across India.

Hindi feature · planned for cinemas in 2027 · a Cinecouncil original

How we work

The story comes first. Technology serves it.

People are credited

Every creative role is held by a person and credited by name: writer, director, composer, editor, singer.

Voices are consented

Every voice comes from a paid artist who has given consent, under contract. Every licence clears in one signature.

The sacred is respected

Faith is handled with care. Every depiction of the sacred is researched against scripture and scholarship, shown with restraint, and never turned into spectacle.

The team

Five people. One engine.

Ravindranath Birendranath Jha
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer
Ananya Priyadarshini
Co-founder, Chief Creative Officer
Pooja Mishra
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer
Maheen Meshram
Chief Technology Officer
Tanvi Bandebuche
Head of Digital Experience