Production Services India
Mumbai, India / Worldwide
Local expertise.
Global standards.
Full-service line production for international and domestic productions shooting in India. From first recce to final post: ambitious shoots, run smoothly.
- 2017
- founded in Mumbai
- Producer-led
- on every film
- End-to-end
- production
- On the ground
- in India
- Solving
- the unexpected
The partner on the ground
Creative ambition in. Production certainty out.
Bratman Films is the producer-led partner for productions shooting in India: for international agencies and brands bringing a brief into the country, and for domestic productions that need a crew they can trust.
One accountable producer from first call to final delivery. Locations, permits and local fixing, crews, casting, equipment and post, scoped honestly, priced transparently, run to a global standard. You bring the ambition. We make it schedulable.
Most of our work comes through agencies: Ogilvy India, Creativeland Asia, Dentsu Webchutney, Enormous, Big Bang Social, OML and Tilt Brand Solutions.
Flying a crew in? The honest version of the permission stack, visas and timelines is in our guide to shooting in India.
Capabilities
Everything a shoot needs.
Six departments. One point of accountability.
Line production
Budgets, schedules and logistics managed end to end. One line of accountability.
Locations & permits
Recces, government and private permissions. Access that holds on shoot day.
Crews & talent
Department heads and technicians matched to the brief, not the other way round.
Casting
Casting directors and street casting, from lead talent to real people.
Equipment & facilities
Camera, grip, lighting and stages sourced from rental partners.
Post & delivery
Edit, grade, sound and masters, delivered to spec, wherever your edit lives.
Fixer & permits
Cleared to shoot.
Permissions, mapped before prep.
Every shoot in India answers to a permission stack: state, location, police, ASI, railways, each its own desk. We map and file the stack as part of the line, not as an extra.
State and location-level permissions move in parallel so the slow desk never holds the schedule. For productions flying in, we map the visa route too: FFO for scripted work, the J-visa lane for ad films.
- State, location and police permissions run in parallel
- ASI, railways and municipal desks filed separately
- FFO / India Cine Hub filings for scripted features and TV
- Visa-route mapping for crews flying in
Process
How we run a shoot.
The same shape every time, so the surprises stay on screen.
- 01
Brief
Send the script, the boards or the ambition. We read fast and come back with the right questions.
- 02
Scope & budget
A transparent line-item budget and a schedule built to survive contact with reality.
- 03
Crew & locations
Department heads locked, locations recced, permits in motion before your team lands.
- 04
Shoot
A set that runs on time. Problems solved before they reach the client.
- 05
Post
Edit, grade, sound and online kept under the same accountability as the shoot.
- 06
Delivery
Masters, versions and cutdowns delivered to spec, on deadline.
The producer stays on the monitor.
Producer-led
One name on the call sheet.
The producer who finds the answer. The crew that makes the idea real.
Every Bratman production is led by a producer, not a coordinator or an agency layer. The person who scoped your budget is on set, on the monitor, on the phone.
When something changes, and something always changes, you get an answer, not an excuse.
- A producer on set for every shoot day
- Line-item budgets you can audit
- Decisions made at the monitor, not through layers
“had an answer for every googly”
Why Bratman
A producer-led production company built for what's next.
Producer-led approach
One accountable producer from first call to final delivery.
Local expertise, global standards
On the ground in India, run to a global standard.
End-to-end production services
Locations, permits, crews, casting, equipment and post, from first recce to final post.
A director roster
A roster director and a bench of collaborators we've produced with, matched to the story.
Technology that helps
Smoother deliveries, and the surprises stay on screen.
A partner, not just a vendor
Built for long-term relationships, not one-off jobs.
Shooting in India
The questions producers ask first.
- What does line production in India cover?
- Locations and permits, crew and talent, casting, equipment and post. A producer leads the job from recce to delivery.
- Do you handle permits and locations across India?
- Yes. Recce, permits and local fixing are planned by the producer on your brief, across the country.
- Can you crew and cast a shoot in India?
- Yes. Directors, crew and casting are matched to the brief, along with equipment and post.
- Can you line-produce an international shoot in India?
- Yes. Full-service line production is a core service: budgets, locations and permits, crews, casting, equipment and post, led by one accountable producer from recce to delivery.
- Do you handle film permits and visas for foreign crews?
- Handled end to end. Scripted features and TV file through the national single window (FFO / India Cine Hub); ad films take the J-visa route via MEA, a different track from the F-visa feature route. State and local location permissions run in parallel, and FRRO registration is planned for stays over 180 days.
- How early should we brief you?
- As early as the idea stage. Recce and permits move faster with lead time, but the pipeline is built for tight turnarounds.
Roll sound.
Your next film starts here.
Send the brief. A producer comes back with a plan, a crew and a budget that holds.
