Saregama India Limited is one of India's oldest music labels and entertainment content companies. Headquartered in Kolkata, it is part of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. The company, originally established as the Indian arm of The Gramophone Company, holds an extensive archive of recorded Indian music spanning more than a century, covering film soundtracks, classical music, devotional content, and regional repertoires.
| Name | Saregama India Limited |
|---|---|
| Former names | The Gramophone Company of India Limited; HMV India |
| Industry | Music, entertainment, consumer electronics |
| Headquarters | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Parent | RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group |
| Notable product | Carvaan (digital audio player) |
| Listing | BSE, NSE |
The company traces its origins to the early twentieth century, when The Gramophone Company began recording and pressing discs in India. Its Dum Dum facility near Kolkata became one of the earliest record-pressing plants in Asia. Through much of the twentieth century the label operated under the His Master's Voice (HMV) brand, building a catalogue that includes recordings by leading playback singers, classical musicians, and ghazal artists.
The business was rebranded as Saregama in 2000, taking its name from the first four notes of the Indian solfège (sa, re, ga, ma). The new name positioned the company as an Indian-rooted entertainment brand while it continued to manage its legacy HMV catalogue.
Saregama monetises its catalogue through licensing to digital streaming services, television, films, advertising, and public performance. Its archive includes Hindi film music as well as Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, and other regional repertoires, alongside Hindustani and Carnatic classical recordings.
Carvaan is a Bluetooth-enabled portable music player marketed primarily to older listeners, preloaded with curated songs from the company's catalogue. Variants have been released for regional languages, devotional content, and children's content.
Through its Yoodlee Films division, Saregama produces feature films and web series. The company also produces and acquires new music for film soundtracks and independent releases.
As the successor to The Gramophone Company of India, Saregama controls one of the largest recorded-music archives in South Asia, making it an important custodian of twentieth-century Indian musical heritage. Its catalogue is widely used in remasters, compilations, and licensed reproductions of vintage Indian film and classical music.