Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos speaks waves in Mumbai on Saturday (May 3, 2025) in 2025. , Photo Credit: PTI
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos on Saturday (May 3) dismissed the dramatic films as an ‘old concept’ of his recent statement.
Sarandos BKC was interacting with Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan on the third day of the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (Waves) at BKC, Mumbai.
At an earlier summit in New York, Sarandos said: “People grew up thinking,” I want to make films on a huge screen and stranger plays them (and near them) play in theater for two months and people cry and cry and sell … It’s an old concept. “
Talking to Saif, Sarandos clarified his stance on streaming and co -existence of traditional theaters.
“I think they can be co-existence,” said Netflix Boss. “I was recently asked in New York that if I felt theaters were old, and I definitely said that I am not sure. I am being interviewed in Manhattan, where there is a film theater on every corner. I have grown in a small city. Finix, Arizona-and at that time you don’t have a foreign film to watch a foreign-lung film.
Actor Saif Ali Khan speaks in the waves 2025 in Mumbai on Saturday (May 3, 2025). , Photo Credit: PTI
Sarandos said he “hoped theaters continue to exist,” saying “he likes to go to films”.
Since 2018 Holy gameHis breakout Hindi original series starring Saif and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Netflix has focusing rapidly on the Indian market.
According to Sarandos, between 2021–2024, Netflix created an economic impact of $ 2 billion through his investment in the Indian story tell, making it “20,000 cast and crew jobs” from its local presentations. Netflix has a list of 150 original films and has so far been shot in 90 cities across India.
“Last year, Netflix was seen by about 3 billion hours of Indian content worldwide. It is 60 million hours a week. Every week last year, there was a title from India in the global top 10 of the last year,” Sarndos said.
Sarandos encouraged Indian filmmakers to make local and original stories rather than attempts to do a global breakout ‘reverse engineer “. A film that does not love in India will not be loved in the world, “he said.
He also hypnotized his upcoming Hindi series Prasad The roles And Bollywood’s bad *** SThe direction of Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan began in the latter. “I am four episodes in Bollywood’s Bads and it’s very fun. It’s an explosion!” Sarandos teased.
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Saif said that the arrival of streaming has freed actors and storytellers.
“Earlier we were fit into specific boxes and had a formula, a look, a style. Today, thanks to streaming, you can detect the characters in a lot of depth. There is an intimacy for the platform and a large amount of expansion, which you can go,” Saif saw, “Saif saw, who is in his Netflix’s recent Heest film. Jewel Chor: The heir begins.
Published – May 03, 2025 03:55 PM IST
