India's animation and VFX industry has long powered some of Hollywood's biggest productions. Kayhan Entertainment Private Limited is now making a deliberate shift from execution to ownership, building original, culturally rooted intellectual property (IP) designed to travel across global markets, formats, and platforms.
Founded by Dalbir Singh and Arushi Govil, the studio combines deep technical expertise with a clear creative mandate. Dalbir brings over 15 years of VFX and filmmaking experience, with credits on Avengers: Endgame, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and Venom. Arushi's production background spans MPC, Framestore, and DNEG, with work on Tenet, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Brahmastra. Together they bring complementary strengths that few Indian studios can claim at once.
"While we bring deep expertise in animation and VFX that we are happy to lend to the right collaborations, our primary focus is building an IP-led creative enterprise," said Dalbir Singh.
Kayhan's first original IP, "Chote Tara Ka Bada Gadar," launched on Kids Zee in 2025, demonstrating the studio's ability to bring culturally rooted storytelling to a mainstream platform. Its next property, FAB 5, is a fast-paced, character-driven animated series blending action, humour, and emotional storytelling around themes of teamwork, courage, and kindness. Culturally resonant and built for episodic franchising, it is designed for long-term development across platforms.
"As we scale, our focus is on building the right mix of talent and capability. India has an incredible pool of creative potential, but the real opportunity lies in nurturing that talent within strong production ecosystems. At Kayhan, we are investing in people as much as we are in IP, bringing together global experience and emerging creators to build stories that can compete at an international level. Expansion for us is not just about growing output, but about building depth in creative thinking, execution, and long-term storytelling capability," said Arushi Govil.
Long term, Kayhan is building across multiple verticals including media and storytelling, consumer merchandise, an education and talent development initiative called Macra, and immersive AR and VR experiences, alongside a dedicated IP incubator for transmedia storytelling across animation, gaming, and beyond. With a growing team combining international production experience and an evolving in-house setup, the studio's vision remains consistent: to build a globally relevant storytelling company from India, creating IP that travels across formats, markets, and time.
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