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Vishakha Singh: Making independent films about underdogs is not smart business
“You are also making stories, independent stories of underdogs of Quote unquote, garib people, jiska target addressable market, TAM is very small, right? So it's not a smart business idea.”
Singh: South Indian cinema is technically far superior to other regional industries
“I think the South film industry, they're technically far superior, right? They have a great iPhone. They're just very talented creatively as well. Extremely talented.”
Singh: Anurag Kashyap normalized natural-looking actors around 2008-2009
“2008 and nine Anurag had already created their dent, right? Anurag Kashyap and all these normal, natural looking actors were taking center stage.”
Singh: Independent actors must endure 20 to 40 mediocre films for success
“Same thing with films, right? You got to act in at least 20, 30, 40 films, and then, unless of course you are, you know, supported by a big studio that has access to the best of scriptwriters, et cetera, so almost 50% of all your films will be successful. But …”
Singh: WazirX NFT Marketplace Brought Her More Joy Than Film Career
“I think my, the maximum amount of joy that I drew was from the NFT marketplace under Vazeer X.”
Singh: WazirX community protested when the company sunsetted its NFT platform
“And when, after I left and when Vazirix decided to basically sunset the whole thing, It was a community that fought and said, you know, we want it, give it to us.”
Singh: Uploads film contracts and scripts to AI to find legal loopholes
“For instance, if I have scripts that need to be doctored, right? And even for my film contracts, I just upload the contract and think, just find out the loopholes, right?”
Singh avoids social media and deletes apps to resist platform algorithms
“Today as an act of resistance, I don't post on social media. I have deleted apps. That's an act of resistance because I will not give into the algorithm and I'll not give into that ham, you know, hamster on a wheel.”
Singh: Spotlighting female creators increased WazirX female collectors from 2% to 16%
“And even what we even did was we even highlighted NFT creator, female creator stories also, because when these female creators were highlighted and spotlighted their works, they had good savings and they had good sales. Right. With these sales, they had saving…”
Vishakha Singh Bans Tiered Food Demarcations on Her Film Sets
“I said, no matter what, there'll be always good food on set, and there wouldn't be You know, category A, B, C kind of food demarcations that people do”
Singh: Crowdfunded film Peddlers was sold to Eros but never released
“Initially we were four co-producers and became eight, you know, and then we did sell it off successfully to Eros, but the film unfortunately never released.”
Singh: Amitabh Bachchan sang for Atkan Chhatkan for just 1,100 rupees
“Then of course, in 20, 20, I produced Atkan Chhatkan, which is a children's film with which Mr. A. R. Iman presented and Bachchan sir sang a song in it for just 1100 rupees.”
Singh: Heavily dressed Cannes attendees in high heels are festival newcomers
“Wear your flat shoes because the Camden Festival is all about networking and walking. So if you see somebody in, you know, high heels or really dead tub, you just know they're fresh off the boat.”
Singh: IconicBot sold over 31,000 tickets across major Indian films
“We made IconicBot personalized chatbot for Kamal Hassan's, Vishwarupam, Samantha's, U-Turn. Vijay Talapati, Vijay's Mursil. A lot of these films, you know, we sold over 31,000 tickets”
Singh: Declined late-night director parties when starting out in 2007
“Back then we would get calls at 10 o'clock at night saying, you'd like to attend this party, these directors are coming, and I would say no.”
Vishakha Singh: Only seven of 120 crew on Atkan Chatkan set were women
“In fact, I remember even in on my film set in 2020, when I was producing Atkan Chatkan, we were in Jhansi and we were on set and I realized we were 120 of us and there were only seven women, including me.”
Singh: Discloses exact fundraising figures privately to encourage women to discuss money
“When I am in a close circle with people, I tell them how much money I've raised because I want other women to talk about it openly.”
Singh: Video campaign and petition secured a job for Santhi Soundarajan
“So we made a video and we released it and that went viral. And the impact that it had was we had these, you know, those Change.org, you know, the signatures, the petitions that we have. We had a lot of signatures that happened because of that video, and then w…”