Corner Office Conversation with Vikramaditya Motwane and Sameer Nair

Sameer Nair’s profession trajectory is co-terminus with the typical millennial’s consumption of Indian tv and media. From bringing worldwide exhibits like Road Hawk and Knight Rider to nationwide tv within the late 80s to creating us come of age with American cleaning soap operas The Daring and The Lovely and Santa Barbara as programming head of Star TV within the late 90s; from reinventing prime time leisure with Kyunki Saans Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Kaun Banega Crorepati as Star India chief to bringing Balaji Telefilms to the OTT house as its Group CEO…and at last telling tales he needs as managing director of Aditya Birla Group’s Applause Leisure which gave us Rip-off 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, it’s been fairly the journey for Nair. Becoming a member of him in at this time’s dialog is Vikramaditya Motwane, one in all Bollywood’s uncommon auteurs with a outstanding physique of labor, together with Udaan and Lootera, Sacred Video games, and the newest Netflix present, Black Warrant, produced by Nair’s Applause. Motwane and Nair talk about their newest present and upcoming tasks, up to date historical past and guide variations, why the cinema expertise wants to alter and why the leisure business wants disciplined fund-raising, Amar Chitra Katha and the mafia, and why the Indian leisure business is a optimistic 2025 after two troublesome years.

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