What Siddharth Roy Kapur wants: Fresh stories that are told in unique voices

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Lata Jha 9 min read May 24, 2025, 09:00 AM Ist Siddharth Roy Kapur (illustration by Priya Kuriyan) Summary The founder of the production house Roy Kapur films about why content should be compelling and not a star-driven, the current slowdown in Bollywood, and teaches him to be successful, or or the failure to get the Siddharth Kapur’s work, it is not the sides. movies he grew up on. It is difficult to miss the iconic film posters against the walls-Mughal-E-Azam, Pyaasa and Sholay, located in a busy corner of Mumbai’s Khar area, with a whole wall recorded by a window. And then there is the esteemed possession: a poster of the 2023 film Napoleon, signed by director Ridley Scott, himself. It’s a Space Roy Kapur, 50, says he has worked closely with the designer when he started his independent production company Roy Kapur films after giving the Walt Disney Co. India left, where he served as managing director until 2016. The Content Studio has films such as Deva (2025), Pippa (2023), and the Sky is Pink (2019), except web Origins such as Yeh Ballet (2023), and the Sky (2019)) and Rocket Boys (2022), which keep the pipeline steady, although not messy. After a manic few years in Disney, where he supervised everything from the studio business to the broadcasting network and the consumer products vertically, it is at the same time easy to see why Roy Kapur is taking it slowly. “In the past two to three years, there has been a slowdown in terms of the number of films and shows made (all over the industry). Although it is very easy to enter into many activities (in terms of new announcements), I feel that it makes sense to breathe, look at the landscape, focus on development and then make it worthwhile,” Roy Kapur says. The studio is currently filming a project called Matka King with Vijay Varma for Amazon Prime video directed by Nagraj Manjule and announced a web series adjustment of William Dalrymple’s book The Anarchy directed by Stephen Frears. He is not unaware of the current challenges in the Indian entertainment industry, especially the theater film industry. According to the media consultant firm Ormax, Hindi Cinema saw that the collections of £ 5.380 in 2023 dropped to £ 4,679 crore in 2024. Remarkably, 31% of Hindi Cinema’s collections come from the baptized versions of South Indian films. If only original Hindi language films are considered, the decrease in box office was a sharp 37%. The year registered 883 million feet, reflecting a 6% drop of 2023 in 2024 was lower than the past two years, and still remains lower than pre-pandemic levels. “I don’t think anyone has ever had an idea. The best thing you can do is guess, ‘Roy Kapur says when asked if the Hindi film industry is in crisis. “We got out of it, but we still have some of the consequences of what Covid did to the industry. … Many consumer habits and attitudes have changed. Attention is lower, people are more distracted, you need to grab their attention much more than before. Because of the easy access to content you could not imagine a specific time) and wait for a repetition or rent a DVD if you missed something. Also read: Why Diageeo’s Hina Nagarajan leaves at a peak at the same time is the potential for higher benefits, but he will quickly point out. More films have crossed the £ 500 crore mark at the box office over the past two years. “That potential is there, people have the money, and they want experiences. If you can give them something they move in, they will come in large numbers. And the flip side is if it doesn’t work, they won’t come at all, regardless of the star. Do things without big stars, “says Roy Kapur, referring to films like the 12th Fail and Munjya who worked without popular faces. Roy Kapur, who believes that producers should look at trade and creativity as two sides of the same coin, says there are several takeaways from his four -year lead in Disney India who have been roles in his current roles. (Was the biggest leather). He left at the top of his game, Roy Kapur’s was a exit that was widely discussed in media and entertainment rings in 2016. Corporation is, this is how you grow. Executive Development Program for a few years – News Corp. (Now Fox Corp.). India was where the action was, and those five years outside the country taught me that is where I wanted to be, “says Roy Kapur, adding that the role of the role at Disney that really makes him tap was the creation of content.” While I enjoyed the Broadcast Network, the consumer products vertically, the digital and lively entertainment business was satisfied, and it did just Next step felt. A string of films such as Shahenshah Akbar and Zanjeer produced. Institute of Management Studies, was followed by a short time at Procter & Gamble, where he realized that he had to have a strong emotional connection to what he was selling or marketing to do it well. Many of my friends, who were so passionate about it. Experimental, content-powered sleeper hits such as Rang de Basanti, Khosla Ka Ghosla produced! While the Disney stint saw the success of Dangal, the highest Hindi film of the time. Titles such as Rocket Boys, for example, are a more nuanced, subtle form of storytelling encouraged by manufacturers like Roy Kapur, while their renewal of the season ensures customers for OTT platforms. Relationship with the Stars and the Entrenched System. Those had to be built and we decided to be director-driven than actor-driven. So we picked directors who like us, had a point of view, “Says Roy Kapur, adding that director dibakar Banerjee’s debut Khosla Ka Ghosla, for Instance, had done the Rounds in the Industry with a deleted semi-ready version that nobody picked up, Marketing budget higher than the production costs. Then I saw how many people fall into despair or hubris, depending on how their careers really can catch you, “he says. tale