Rucha Pathak is an independent Producer with over 25 years of experience in the Indian film Industry. She recently produced the comedy Madgaon Express for Excel Entertainment and is completing 120 Bahadur (under production at Excel Entertainment)Rucha was the Chief Creative Officer at Fox Star Studios where she set up a robust film and development pipeline with Neerja, Jolly LLB 2, Phillauri, India’s Most Wanted, The Gentleman, Chhapaak and Panga. Her films Lootcase and Dil Bechara were hits on Disney–Hotstar. Rucha has actively backed innovative scripts and made her mark as a producer at UTV Motion Pictures with films like Barfi, Mumbai Meri Jaan etc. She also helped build the very successful UTV Spotboy brand which was the forerunner of cutting- edge content and path-breaking cinema in the Indian film industry, having produced films like Dev D, Paan Singh Tomar, Noone Killed Jessica, Welcome to Sajjanpur, Aamir, Chillar Party, Anybody Can Dance, etc.

Rucha also independently produced Harud (Autumn) which was selected in Competition at the Toronto International Film Festival 2010 and was a winner of the Don Quixote award at Fribourg International Film Festival in 2011. Her Indie cinema journey also includes winning the top prize at Open Doors, Locarno Film Festival.