Namit Malhotra is the chief executive officer of visual effects, animation and stereo conversion company DNEG. He is also the Founder and Non-Executive Director of Prime Focus Limited which is the world`s largest independent integrated media services company.
Born on 2nd April 1976, Namit Malhotra is the eldest son of Bollywood film producer Naresh Malhotra and the grandson of cinematographer M.N. Malhotra. He grew up in Mumbai, India and graduated with a bachelor`s degree in Commerce from H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. Malhotra recruited three of his teachers from school and found an editing studio that he named Video Workshop, in his father`s garage. Video workshop did editing work on many popular television shows and serials like Boogie Woogie for Sony, Colgate Top 10 for Zee Entertainment, Gaatha for Star India, advertisement films/TVC`s for producers like Sunil Manchanda of MAD Entertainment and music videos for producers like Sanjay Gupta, Kunal Kohli, and Anubhav Sinha. It also ran the post-production facility for Channel V. In 1997, Malhotra merged Video Workshop`s business with Naresh Malhotra`s Video Works, a film production equipment rental business to create Prime Focus.


Prime Focus has delivered stereo conversions for a number of movie blockbusters, including Star Wars: Episode I, Star Wars: Episode II, Star Wars: Episode III; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Wrath of the Titans; Transformers: Dark of the Moon; and Shrek 2. Namit Malhotra is the producer on the 2020 Bollywood film Brahmastra.