ContentFlow Studios · Bobby Bedi

Stories that travel.

ContentFlow Studios is a production company led by Bobby Bedi, the producer of Bandit Queen, Fire, Saathiya, Maqbool, The Rising and Bitter Chestnut. Films that begin in India and carry to Cannes, Berlin, Busan and beyond.

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On producing

"I'm not the conventional producer who just signs checks. I'm involved in the complete creative process of every film that I undertake."

— Bobby Bedi, in conversation with India Currents

Selected Milestones

Thirty-five years in a column.

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1989

Debut production: In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.

1994

Bandit Queen premieres at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

1996

Produces Deepa Mehta's Fire — a landmark of queer South Asian cinema.

2002

Saathiya — mainstream romance with A. R. Rahman and Gulzar.

2003

Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool — Shakespeare reimagined as Bombay noir.

2005

The Rising opens the 58th Locarno Film Festival and wins the NETPAC Special Jury Award.

2011

Virasat-e-Khalsa opens in Anandpur Sahib — Bedi's foray into museum storytelling.

2019

Bitter Chestnut premieres at Busan International Film Festival.

2023

Career retrospective at the 68th SEMINCI — Valladolid International Film Festival.

2026

4K restoration of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones premieres at Berlinale Classics and returns to Indian cinemas; Mudras, the Spanish film of the Invisible Strings project, premieres at the Festival de Málaga.

Stories that travel.

Four films that defined a career.

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Lala & Poppy

Invisible Strings

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