ASIA-PACIFIC Foreign private equity investors, studios and film funds will be given a chance to invest directly in Bollywood films at the project level as the world’s most prolific movie-making industry goes into capital-raising mode.
UTV Software Communications, the entertainment group controlled by the Indian entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, and in which Disney also holds a stake, said Bollywood could raise up to $1bn over the next two years from selling stakes in its huge “slate” of film projects.
