After dabbling in films for eight years as a producer, Manish Mundra turned director with Siya in 2022. “The response has motivated me to direct more in the future,” says the filmmaker, who has previously produced Masaan (2015),  Dhanak (2016), and Newton (2017), among others. 

Mundra’s banner, Drishyam Films, is already working on its next slate of movies. “We have wrapped up a documentary on tigers. We are shooting a social comedy with Ashwin Shetty as the director. Our first international film will roll out this October, and we had also commissioned a wildlife film that was shot over three years,” says the producer of the film, titled Real Jungle Book.