We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Eros International Media Limited ("the Company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial statements including a summary of material accounting policy information and other explanatory information ((hereinafter referred to as "Standalone financial statements)".
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, except for the possible effects of the matter(s) described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion section of our report, the aforesaid standalone financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India including the Indian Accounting Standards ("Ind AS") prescribed under section 133 of the Act, read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, its loss (including other comprehensive income), its changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Qualified Opinion
We draw attention to the following matters in the notes to the standalone financial statements:
a) As As stated in Note 51 to the Statement, the Company has long overdue trade receivables from group entities, amounting to ' 15,189 Lakhs (net of payable of ' 29,239 Lakhs) from Eros Worldwide FZE (formerly known as Eros Worldwide FZ LLC) ("EWW"), ' 7,448 Lakhs (net of payable of ' 329 Lakhs) from Eros International Limited UK and ' 3,246 Lakhs from Eros International USA Inc. As stated in the said note, considering the financial position and performance of the aforesaid entities, the Company has made the overall provision of ' 25,884 Lakhs for net trade receivables for expected credit loss during the year ended March 31, 2025. Further, the Company has filed application with Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") through Authorized Dealers to condone the delay and not to charge any fine or penalty for delay in realization of outstanding export invoices as also setting off trade payables against trade receivables and permit net remittance due from EWW ' 15,189 Lakhs.
Pending outcome of the above, impact, if any, on the Statement for the year ended March 31, 2025 is currently not ascertainable.
b) i. As stated in Note 54 to the Statement, the Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") has passed Interim Ex-Parte order dated June 22, 2023 and thereafter Confirmatory Order dated October 13, 2023 against which an appeal was filed by the Company with Securities Appellate Tribunal ("SAT"), which was disposed-off with the direction for SEBI to issue Show Cause Notice ("SCN") and to complete investigation in stipulated period of time. The Company is in the process of responding to the SCN after seeking information from SEBI. Content advances as on March 31, 2025
includes those given to certain parties and aggregating to ' 1,01,628 Lakhs (? 3,316 Lakhs, net of impairment and write-off) which are subject matter of scrutiny and investigation by SEBI alongwith other matters as mentioned in the aforesaid Confirmatory Order.
b) ii. As stated in Note 54 to the Statement, search operations were carried out u/s 37(3) of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 at the Registered Office of the Company by the Enforcement Directorate, Mumbai, which ended on February 06, 2025.
Pending completion of proceedings and investigation, we are unable to comment on the possible consequential effects thereof, if any, on the Statement for the year ended March 31, 2025.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ("ICAI") together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalone financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our qualified opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Material Uncertainty Related to Going Concern
We draw attention to Note 52 to the Standalone Financial Statements, which indicates that the company has incurred a net loss before tax of ' 674 Lakhs (after considering other income as referred to in Note 52 of the Statement) for the year ended March 31, 2025, its net worth has eroded entirely. Further, its current liabilities exceeds current assets as at the year end. These events or conditions, along with other matters as set forth in Note 52, indicate that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The assumption of going concern is dependent on the ability of the Company to raise funds through monetization of its film/ music library rights as well as its noncore assets, mobilization of additional funds through recovery of dues from its group entities and other strategic initiatives. However, for the reasons stated in the Note 52, the Statement has been prepared on the basis of going concern.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter
Key Audit Matters
Except for the matters described in the basis for Qualified Opinion section and Material Uncertainty Related to Going Concern section above, we have determined that there are no other key audit matters to communicate in our report.
Other information
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Director’s Report, but does not include the standalone financial statements, consolidated financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The Director’s Report is expected to be made available to us after the date of this auditor's report.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information and we will not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
When we read the Director’s report, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance and describe actions applicable in the applicable laws and regulations.
Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Standalone Financial Statements
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance (including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including Ind AS prescribed under section 133 of the Act, read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.
Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of this standalone financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3) (i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls with reference to financial statements in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the standalone financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the standalone financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the standalone financial statements of the current year and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
(1) As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government of India in terms of section 143(11) of the Act, we report in "Annexure 1", a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
(2) As required by section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
a. We have sought and except for the matters described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion section above, obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit;
b. Except for the effects of the matters described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion section above, in our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books
except for use of audit trail feature which was not enabled throughout the financial year and remained non-operational for few months;
c. The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account;
d. Except for the effects of the matters described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion section above, in our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Ind AS prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended;
e. The matters described under the Basis for Qualified Opinion and Material Uncertainty Related to Going Concern section above, in our opinion, may have an adverse effect on the functioning of the Company;
f. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025, and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2025 from being appointed as a director in terms of section 164(2) of the Act except that in June 22, 2023, SEBI issued an Ad Interim Ex-Parte order against the Company and its directors. Consequential to the order, one of the directors of the Company, Mr. Sunil Arjan Lulla, is restricted from holding any directorial positions in listed companies;
g. The modifications relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in the paragraph 2(b) above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) of the Act and paragraph (2)(j)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014;
h. With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to financial statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in "Annexure 2";
i. With respect to the other matter to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with the requirements of section 197(16) of the Act, as amended:
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid/ provided by the Company to its Executive Vice Chairman & Managing Director during the year is in excess of the limits laid down under section 197 of the Act. Details of remuneration paid in excess of the limit laid down under this section are as given in Note 44 of the standalone financial statements;
j. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its standalone financial statements - Refer Note 40 to the standalone financial statements on Contingent Liabilities;
(ii) The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses;
(iii) There were no amounts which were required
to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company;
(iv) (a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, other than as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(iv) (b) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, other than as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been received by the Company from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities ("Funding Parties"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(iv) (c) Based on the audit procedures that are
considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), as provided under (a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.
(v) The Company has not declared nor paid any dividend during the year. Hence, reporting the compliance with section 123 of the Act is not applicable.
(vi) Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has used an accounting software for maintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has not operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Since the audit trail feature was not operated throughout the year, we cannot comment on the tampering of the said feature, if any. In the circumstances, the audit trail has not been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
For Haribhakti & Co. LLP
Chartered Accountants
ICAI Firm Registration No.103523W / W100048
Sumant Sakhardande
Partner
Membership No. 034828
UDIN: 25034828BMNZLE6891
Place: Mumbai
Date: September 22, 2025
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