[2] His son is the film and TV producer Dhaval Gada and was announced as his successor at PEN on 3 November 2014.

He began working in his father's small grocery store, also taking courses in radio repairing and photography.

He convinced Doordarshan to show the remastered and extended version of the classic action-adventure Sholay, which had record viewing figures despite its long running time.

[11] In 2013, he produced the 3D animation film Mahabharat, in which Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan voiced characters.

[14] Today Pen acquires worldwide rights to Hindi films and supplies them to networks such as Zee, Sony, Sahara One and Star.