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Guneet Monga: Pagglait and Kathal my most profitable films
Producer Guneet Monga Kapoor said her most profitable films are Pagglait (2021) and Kathal (2023), with huge returns on investment. She made the revelation at a session organised by WIF India and…
Producer Guneet Monga Kapoor said her most profitable films are Pagglait (2021) and Kathal (2023), with huge returns on investment. She made the revelation at a session organised by WIF India and Kathha Pictures on women driving Indian cinema.
Monga Kapoor recalled a masterclass by filmmaker Yash Chopra in 2007, where he said: "Scripts never fail, budgets fail." She said money management is central to producing and that getting budgets right removes obstacles.
She added that her company Sikhya Entertainment, which recently received investment, is making four women-led films. One of them is directed by a fresh film institute graduate whose short film Monga Kapoor saw and encouraged.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Monga Kapoor's point about budgets rather than scripts failing echoes a long-held industry principle but is rarely stated with such direct financial data. By naming specific titles and claiming huge ROIs, she challenges the assumption that female-led or non-star-driven films are inherently risky. Pagglait and Kathal were both Netflix releases with modest theatrical runs, meaning their profitability is measured differently from a traditional box office hit. The session itself signals a growing push within Bollywood to back women-led collaborations with institutional support like the WIF India network. The next signal to watch is whether the four women-led films Sikhya has lined up receive wide theatrical releases or follow the OTT model that made her earlier profitable films.
Source: bollywoodhungama.com
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