Indian Classics Competitors

Launched in 2007, BookMyShow, owned by Big Tree Entertainment Pvt Ltd (founded in 1999), is India’s leading entertainment destination, present in 700+ towns and cities. From an online ticketing platform for movies across 7,000 screens, it has grown into a full-stack entertainment company, including out-of-home entertainment through its live entertainment experiential division, BookMyShow Live. As India’s most trusted promoter of world class live entertainment, BookMyShow Live has hosted icons like U2, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Guns N’ Roses, Backstreet Boys, Trevor Noah, Post Malone, Westlife, Justin Bieber and many more. It also powers major festival IPs: Lollapalooza India, the global music festival’s only Asian edition featuring Imagine Dragons, Jonas Brothers, Green Day, Shawn Mendes, OneRepublic and others; Bandland, BookMyShow’s rock music festival with acts like Deep Purple, Goo Goo Dolls, Avenged Sevenfold and Extreme; and Nykaaland, India’s premier beauty and lifestyle festival. Under Big Tree Entertainment are investee companies like Sunburn, Asia’s biggest electronic dance music festival with Afrojack, Martin Garrix, DJ Snake, Skrillex and more; and TribeVibe, curating performances by Anuv Jain, Falguni Pathak, Sanam, Aditya Gadhvi, Vir Das and Zakir Khan. TribeVibe operates in 75+ cities and 750+ colleges, making quality entertainment more accessible to India’s youth. BookMyShow continues to innovate with features like the m-ticket, Movie Mode and BookMyShow Stream, India’s largest home-grown TVOD platform for award-winning global content. With investors including TPG Growth, Stripes Group, Elevation Capital, Accel and Network18, BookMyShow has expanded beyond India to Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. BookAChange (formerly BookASmile) by BookMyShow Foundation leverages the power of music and performing arts to create impact. At its core, BookMyShow is powered by its people who drive bold ideas, growth and unforgettable experiences.

HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. Ltd. (formerly known as HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd.), a wholly-owned subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., UK, came into being in 1991 and has completed more than 25 years in India. HarperCollins, as a brand, has completed over 200 years globally. HarperCollins India is one of the world’s largest entertainment-to-education publishers.

Penguin Random House India (PRHI) is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House (PRH), a leading global publishing company. PRH was formed in 2013 after the merger between Penguin & Random House. As part of the global merger, Penguin Books India & Random House India came together to form PRHI. Bertelsmann became the sole owner of PRH in 2020. PRHI publishes in English & Hindi while partnering with regional publishing houses to publish across Indian languages including Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati & Kannada. PRHI has published books by well-known & emerging authors from India & abroad, such as Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy, Ruskin Bond, Sudha Murty, Durjoy Datta, (Lt.) Khushwant Singh, Former President of India (Lt.) APJ Abdul Kalam, Upmanyu Chatterjee, Hussain Zaidi, Ravinder Singh, Sudeep Nagarkar, Novoneel Chakraborty, PMO Shri. Narendra Modi, Krishna Udayshankar, Saurabh Mukherjea, Prakash Iyer, R. Gopalakrishnan, Harish Bhat, Sadhguru & Gaur Gopal Das, among others. Additionally, PRHI promotes reading & literacy through the sub-continent through literary events, book launches & book fairs. Since its inception in 1985 in India, PRHI has become one of the most recognised names in the industry. We have an active backlist of 3000+ titles and release 300 new ones every year. PRHI's portfolio consists of authors who have won major literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, the International Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Magsaysay Award, the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize & more. PRHI publishes books across various genres, including literary fiction, romance, thrillers, fantasy, memoirs, biography, self-help, mind, body & spirit, historical non-fiction, politics, creative non-fiction, health, children's literature, YA fiction & non-fiction. We have a rich collection of audiobooks & e-books, & many of our stories have been adapted into films & web series.