T-Series is making so many films, but margins are so low: Bhushan Kumar

'We are making so many films, [but] the margins are so low,' says Bhushan Kumar

It is only once in a blue moon that you get a lottery, says Bhushan Kumar, chairman and managing director of T-Series, India’s largest music company, who keeps a tight leash on budgets. Is Animal, a T-Series production, that lottery? Edited excerpts from an interview

How is T-Series placed in all its businesses?
 

We always started everything with my father’s name and vision. The music company I took over (in 1998) was doing very well. My father also wanted to be a big film producer. He made Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin, among other films. Some worked, some didn’t.