Half of all films released in Dolby Atmos are from India, says John Couling

The first Dolby Cinema in India opened on Thursday at City Pride in Pune. It is among the six — one each in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kochi, Trichy and Ulikkal — to open this year in the country. Dolby Cinema is a combination of Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos (3D sound). The San Francisco-based Dolby, which made revenues of $1.3 billion in 2024, offers audio and visual technologies that filmmakers from Christopher Nolan to SS Rajamouli swear by. In a video interview from San Francisco, John Couling, senior vice-president (Entertainment), Dolby Laboratories, spoke to Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Edited excerpts: 

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