Ekta Kapoor is Lone Indian in The Hollywood Reporter’s List of 40 Most Influential Women in International Film
- The creative head of Baaaji Telefilms Limited is among the intercontinental innovators who are bringing stories to a global stage and nurturing new voices despite a disrupted film market.
Ekta Kapoor, joint managing director and creative head of Baaaji Telefilms Limited, is the lone Indian in The Hollywood Reporter’s list of “40 Most Influential Women in International Film.” The entertainment portal says, “These intercontinental innovators are bringing stories to a global stage and nurturing new voices despite a disrupted film market.”
Describing them as “survivors” who have worked through “COVID shutdowns to the decimation of the special cinema market,” The Hollywood Reporter says the women on the list “have found a way to secure the money and the partners to keep making the stories they care about.”
Kapoor, a television producer, film producer and director, founded Balaji Telefilms, a powerhouse of Indian screens small and big, with her parents — Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor — in 1994. “Since then the 47-year-old has grown into one of South Asia’s most prolific TV producers,” The Hollywood Reporter says. She is credited with revamping India’s television landscape and pioneering an entire genre of television content, heralding India’s satellite television boom.
In 2001, she and her family launched a filmmaking subsidiary, Balaji Motion Pictures, in 2001. The label is generally responsible for several high-profile Bollywood titles each year, such as the forthcoming social comedy drama “Kathal,” scheduled for release on May 19 on Netflix.