Mundra: Newton's profits funded six to seven subsequent indie films
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Manish Mundra is the founder of Drishyam Films. He describes how the commercial returns from the 2017 hit film Newton capitalized their subsequent production slate.
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“Newton helped me to fund for the next 1006, seven films, you know. And that's how we made rest of the films, and then it's on self-sustaining basis.”
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