Pooja Shetty is an Indian film producer and a businesswoman She is the managing director of the theme park, Adlabs Imagica in Mumbai.
She was born in a Hindu family. She hails from the Tuluva Bunt community. Her father, Manmohan Shetty is a veteran Indian film producer. She has a younger sister, Aarthi Shetty who is a producer too. Pooja Shetty was born in 1979 in Mumbai and did her schooling at Maneckji Cooper School, Mumbai. Later, she completed a degree in management from Purdue University in America.
She is a well-known Indian businesswoman. She manages a few business ventures with her father. She is the managing director of the theme park, Adlabs Imagica in Mumbai. She owns the film production company, Walkwater Media, and she has produced Bollywood films, like “Tere Bin Laden” (2010), “Tere Bin Laden Dead or Alive” (2016), and Zoya Factor” (2019). The popular TV serial, “Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya” (2009) was produced under her banner. She has helped in setting up India’s first IMAX dome theatre in Mumbai, and a multiplex with four screens.
She has received many prestigious awards including the Film Foundation Indira Super Achiever Award 2004, Achiever of the Year 2004, Best Exhibitor-11th-star screen awards, India’s greatest brand builder, and Great Women Achiever Award 2007.
While she was studying in college, she met Milind Deora who is an Indian politician from the Congress Party After dating for almost three years, the couple tied the knot on 9 November 2008. In 2018, she become the mother of a girl child through surrogacy.
