00:00You know, both of you have had an experience of America in your life.
00:03You know, Madhuriji, you moved there to live.
00:06Guneet, obviously, your career has taken you in that path.
00:09And up until I feel very recently, we've always
00:12looked up to the West and America and Hollywood and all of this.
00:16But thankfully now, we were discussing earlier,
00:19that they're looking to the East.
00:20What have you found has been
00:23your journey between the two worlds that you've lived in,
00:26whether in terms of living or your work or your careers,
00:29how have you felt that?
00:30And what have you felt the differences or similarities?
00:35Yeah, you have more experience with that.
00:36You lived there.
00:38I think I've learned business.
00:40The business practices there are incredible because in L.A.,
00:44they look at the whole world as business for a movie.
00:48And in India, we tend to look at India and the diaspora as our universe.
00:54So we look at Indians around the world, which is amazing.
00:57We are a huge, amazing, empowered population.
01:00And we love our movies and our movie stars, which is incredible.
01:05But I think that there is a perspective where out of L.A.,
01:09you look at the whole world.
01:10You look at the non-diaspora also as your audiences.
01:15And that's a journey that I lived on Lunchbox.
01:18And that's the journey that I more recently lived on Kill.
01:21And when you get feedback from Korea, from Japan, from Spain,
01:25from Azerbaijan, and you're selling those territories
01:28and you're getting feedback and you're getting amazing reviews,
01:31you're just like, this is our skin color.
01:33These are our technicians.
01:34This is our craft.
01:35And we took it further and expanded the world.
01:39You know, so that perspective of business came to me from L.A.
01:44I'm I'm excited to work in India and to distribute around the world.
01:50Basically make films in India and use the dollar in our favor
01:57and distribute in dollars.
01:58So that is the journey I'm excited on to expand the world
02:04of our culture, of our skin color.
02:07And to be able to, you know, like I keep saying
02:09that my dream would be to make a brown panther.
02:11You know, Black Panther box office is two billion dollars.
02:15So imagine what the brown panther could do.
02:18Exactly. You know, a trillion dollar film.
02:22Yeah.
02:22But it will be in the future.
02:24I mean, I'm good millions man.
02:27And so, you know, so so more like, you know, where is the crazy rich Indians?
02:31So I get inspired by the business side of Hollywood,
02:37which is taking their films and distributing on the whole world.
02:41Not diaspora or non-diaspora.
02:43They're defining pop culture globally.
02:45You know, so I feel like the increasing
02:49conversation and power of the East
02:53and increasing amazing, incredible films like Parasite has happened.
02:56You know, I just feel it's it's time for us to do that.
03:00And I would love to be able to have that moment or create that story.
03:04So I'm on that journey.
03:06We've started making small dance and one has to learn the business
03:10to navigate that. So, yeah.
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