Oscar-Winning Film Producer Guneet Monga Kapoor Shares Her Hollywood Journey

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Oscar- winning producer Guneet Monga Kapoor discussed different aspects of working in Indian cinema at an event hosted by the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA). Also, the renowned filmmaker discussed about her experience in the western industry and how has it been different than  the way she has been working in the Indiancinema

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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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