Best Color Grading Studios in Mumbai (2026)

Introduction

Six Mumbai studios stand out for colour grading in 2026: FutureWorks, Trisha Studios, Summit Studio, Image Devices, Prasad Corp and Prime Focus. All six run grading as part of a wider post-production operation, which is how most of the city’s colour work is sold.

Mumbai’s grading trade serves Hindi and regional film, streaming series and a steady flow of commercials, and most of it sits close together. Five of the six studios below are in Andheri West, within reach of the Yash Raj Studios and Veera Desai Road area. The market is still investing: FutureWorks hosted an ARRI event on next-generation colour workflows in Mumbai in December 2025, and Trisha Studios plans to open a second facility in Mohali in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Each studio here showed an active Mumbai address on a page checked in 2026, along with stated grading facilities. The list is short because we kept to firms we could confirm. It runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right choice depends on the format, the delivery spec and the colourist you want to work with.

The best colour grading studios in Mumbai

1. FutureWorks

FutureWorks Media Limited · Andheri West · futureworks.in

FutureWorks, founded in 2007, provides colour, VFX, sound and camera rental, with its colour arm (FWX Color) in the Blue Wave building on Andheri Link Road. Its colour and finishing sheet, updated in July 2026, lists nine grading suites on Baselight and Resolve, Colorfront Transkoder systems for mastering, and a 70-seat 4K DCI preview theatre with Dolby Atmos. The company won awards at the 2025 FICCI BAF and VAM ceremonies.

The named colourists are a good part of the appeal. Rahul Purav’s credits include War 2, Tiger Zinda Hai and Mirzapur, Nirmal Sharma worked on Merry Christmas and War 2, and Pratik Kothari led the grade on Sapne Vs Everyone Season 2. The company also runs linked facilities in Hyderabad and Chennai for remote review and grading, which helps on projects shot in the south.

2. Trisha Studios

Trisha Studios Limited · Andheri West · trishastudios.com

Trisha Studios runs a 19,000 sq ft facility at Shree Siddhivinayak Plaza, off New Link Road, covering editing, DI, VFX, Dolby Atmos mixing, dubbing and mastering. Features, OTT and broadcast projects are graded on Baselight with a Blackboard Classic panel, in HDR and SDR, and reviewed in a preview theatre before output.

The studio cites more than 500 films and web series over ten-plus years, and its site names productions such as Maktoob, Naika Devi and The Great Punjab Robbery. A second facility in Mohali, Punjab, is planned for commercial operation in the fourth quarter of 2026. The credits list does not say which titles included a grade, so ask for colour references directly.

3. Summit Studio

Post-production house · Andheri West · summitstudios.in

Summit Studio describes itself as a TPN-certified post-production house, offering DI, VFX, CGI, sound design and mastering from Lotus Signature on Captain Suresh Samant Marg. It runs two grading set-ups: a Baselight suite with a 4K projector for feature work, and a DaVinci Resolve suite with an Eizo ColorEdge Prominence monitor. Both use a Dolby Vision 4K HDR workflow.

Its project list leans towards streaming and film, with Family Man 3, Mamla Legal Hai Season 2, Maharani, Gustakh Ishq and Welcome To the Jungle among the titles shown. The site does not break down its role on each one, so confirm which were graded in-house.

4. Image Devices

Image Devices (I) Pvt Ltd · Andheri West · imagedevices.com

Image Devices was founded in 1992 and works from two addresses on Fun Republic Lane, opposite Yash Raj Studios. It offers DI alongside VFX, CGI, animation, editing and finishing, with Baselight and Resolve suites, calibrated monitors and Barco projectors.

The studio’s showcase covers film VFX, TV commercials and music videos, with a newer section for AI-assisted work and items added during 2026. It suits advertising and film jobs where the grade and the effects are best handled under one roof. Colourists are not named on the site, so ask who would run your session.

5. Prasad Corp

Prasad Film Lab Pvt. Ltd. · Andheri West · prasadcorp.com

Prasad Corp has an office in Crest Audeus on Fun Republic Lane and lists a DI suite in Mumbai alongside its suites in Chennai and Hyderabad. The company says it introduced digital grading services in India. Its colour offer across those locations includes Baselight and DaVinci systems, Barco projection, and support for 4K and 8K workflows.

Its strength is the path from source material to archive. Prasad runs film scanning (DFT Scanity), an integrated film handling facility and vault, and delivers DCPs, IMF packages for OTT platforms and LTO archive copies. Recent restoration work includes a 4K version of Thenmavin Kombathu. Ask which of these services run from the Mumbai suite and which route through Chennai or Hyderabad.

6. Prime Focus

Prime Focus Limited (listed) · Khar West · primefocus.com

Prime Focus was founded in Mumbai in 1997 and still has its base at Prime Focus House on Linking Road. It is the parent of a group that includes DNEG, and in 2014 it absorbed the film and media services business of Reliance MediaWorks. The company says it brought DI to India and has graded more than 1,000 feature films since 2003.

Its post-production pages describe six Baselight suites with IMAX mastering for DI, plus a 10,000 sq ft Mumbai facility for advertising with its own Baselight grading suites. Those pages are undated, so ask for the current suite count and colourist roster. The group’s Ramayana: Part One, produced by Prime Focus Studios, opens worldwide on 5 November 2026.

What to look for in a Mumbai colour grading studio

Start with the colourist. Mumbai clients often book a person first and a facility second, and senior colourists do move between houses. Ask who will sit in the chair for your sessions, look at their recent work in the same format as yours, and check how much of the grade an assistant will handle.

Match the room to the delivery. Theatrical work needs a calibrated projection suite and, ideally, a preview theatre for sign-off, while streaming series need HDR monitoring and a clear route to the mastering spec the platform has asked for. Get the deliverables list (DCP, IMF, Dolby Vision, archive copies) agreed before the grade is priced, because versioning adds a good deal of time.

Consider how the grade connects with the rest of post. Several of these studios run VFX in the same building, which makes it simpler to drop finished shots into the timeline during the grade. Commercial jobs in Mumbai often move quickly from edit to air, so ask about turnaround and out-of-hours suite access. On unreleased film and series work, ask about content security as well; FutureWorks and Summit Studio both state TPN certification.

Finally, settle how looks and notes will travel. Reference frames, LUTs, conform lists and rounds of feedback from directors, cinematographers and agency producers can scatter quickly across WhatsApp and email. A single agreed place for references and review notes shortens each round.

How Fabric helps colour grading teams

Fabric gives a post team one workspace for files, feedback and project knowledge. Grading itself stays in Baselight or Resolve. Fabric handles the material around the session: references, LUTs, review exports, stills and the notes that come back.

Heavy files sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams them on demand so they take no local disk space, and shared team folders keep the latest versions in one place. The explainer on what a LUT is is useful for clients and junior staff.

Look development benefits from search, which includes colour search across visual assets, so a team can find past stills by shade. Similar search takes a selected frame or image and finds others that match on composition, colour and subject, which helps when a director asks for something close to an earlier reference.

Review works through shared links. Share a file or folder with the client as a commenter, with no sign-up needed, and they can leave timestamped comments on video, draw on a frame and attach a note, or draw on a still. The colourist marks each comment completed as it is dealt with, so the feedback works as a checklist for the next session. Shared-link review suits notes on exports and rough looks; final colour sign-off still belongs in a calibrated suite. The review and approval guide covers the workflow.

For finished showreels and reference packs, a file or folder can be published as a web page, which is view-only, with password protection if needed. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and holds CASA Tier 2, though whether that meets a studio or platform’s content security requirements is for their own review. Password protection is included on Pro and Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best colour grading studio in Mumbai?

There is no single answer, as it depends on the format and the colourist. FutureWorks publishes the most detail on its suites and colourists, with credits including War 2. Prime Focus has the longest stated DI record, at more than 1,000 feature films. Summit Studio shows a strong recent list of streaming series.

Where are Mumbai’s colour grading studios based?

Most are in Andheri West, around Fun Republic Lane, New Link Road and Veera Desai Road. FutureWorks, Trisha Studios, Summit Studio, Image Devices and Prasad Corp all have Andheri West addresses. Prime Focus is a short drive south in Khar West.

What does DI mean in Mumbai post-production?

DI stands for digital intermediate. It began as the process of scanning film and finishing it digitally, and the Mumbai trade now uses the term for the colour grade and finishing stage of a film or series, so a “DI suite” is a grading suite.

Do Mumbai studios grade on Baselight or DaVinci Resolve?

Often both. FutureWorks, Summit Studio, Image Devices and Prasad Corp list Baselight and Resolve or DaVinci systems, while Trisha Studios and Prime Focus name Baselight. Colourists usually have a preference, so ask early if your project files or LUT pipeline favour one of them.

Should I book a colour specialist or a full post-production house?

If you need edit, VFX, sound and grade from one supplier, the houses here can cover most of that, and our list of post-production companies in Mumbai goes wider. If the edit and sound are already placed elsewhere, you can book a colourist and suite for the grade and mastering alone. Ask for a clear handover spec for the conform.

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