Manish Mundra
13 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2023 by Manish Mundra · across every show →
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Feb 20, 2023
Mundra: Filmmaking over-indexes on actors and directors over crew
“Though we give too much of weightage to the actors when the film comes on screen, and too much of weightage To the director when the film is on the screen and otherwise, but the fact is there's a huge team that works and it all depends upon how you create your…”
Feb 20, 2023
Feb 20, 2023 bullish
Mundra: Ready to fund a team building decentralized micro-theaters in India
“We are ready to find, we are ready to work upon it, but I feel it's a need of the day by which we can increase, you know, a screen size to 20, 30, 40,000 screens in India over a period of time very quickly and create a robust independent market of viewers”
Feb 20, 2023 positive
Mundra: Capping indie film budgets at 3 crores ensures cost recovery
“My back calculation that was that if I could have done this whole film in, in 2.5 crores, including all or three crores maximum, and I would have done it properly. I would have actually recovered my money. And that was the formula which fit into me that let me…”
Feb 20, 2023 positive
Mundra: Surplus wealth should be stewarded and redistributed to others
“You work hard, you deserve, you get the reward. But that doesn't mean that what you got as a reward is for you. You know, you may need a limited part of it, actually, you know, so what you deserve and what you got is something else, what you need is maybe a po…”
Feb 20, 2023
Mundra: Childhood hardship builds resilience better than adversity in your thirties
“If the same hard times or tough times do come at the age of 30, 32, it's very difficult to take over from there and survive and grow. But if you have gone through those hard times at the right age, when you are like 10, 11, 1213, 14, 15 basic building years of…”
Feb 20, 2023 negative
Feb 20, 2023 negative
Mundra: Taking loans to invest is sophisticated speculation
“Taking loan is a very, you know, it's a sophisticated word of speculation. Because you speculate that, okay, if I have, let's say, one crore, and if I take a loan of four, I'll have a capital of five, now invest, and I'll make money to repay my loan, repay my …”
Feb 20, 2023
Mundra breaks down Drishyam Films' box office and digital rights economics
“My rough calculation was that if I have 500,000 viewers who are ready to watch Dhrisham films, so if I have those consistently, at least I'll have a five crore box office, and that's good enough. So even if net is 50% of that, 2.5 crores, and if I make a film …”
Feb 20, 2023
Feb 20, 2023 positive
Mundra: Retaining a corporate career protects creative freedom in filmmaking
“I thought that I need to earn somewhere else. I need to make my money somewhere else, so that I can be, you know, clearly above that whole commercial cycle, the risk-return formula, and can be very prudent and sincere in storytelling, and that's how I said, no…”
Feb 20, 2023 positive
Feb 20, 2023
Mundra: Earning side income matching your salary enables fearless career decisions
“And when you get a job, when you earn, let's say, 10,020 1030 1040 thousand rupees as your starting salary, you work hard to create another additional income of 30, 40,000, which is equivalent to your salary. You have so much courage in you that you don't care…”