Kunal Purandare

2 months ago | forbesindia.com | Kunal Purandare

I’ve been informally involved in the production of my films for almost 25 years. I never formally ventured into production because of the kind of films I make… I have to have a tight control over how they are produced. My first instinct is that the films must recover their cost; you can never predict success, but in the event of a box office failure, you are at least secure. And certain films are discovered much later. So, I have always had that instinct.

Jan 20, 2025 | forbesindia.com | Kunal Purandare

'Everyone waits for that one role that grabs eyeballs. That was Animal for me': Triptii Dimri IMDB's most popular Indian star of 2024, Triptii Dimri, sits down with Forbes India's Kunal Purandare to talk about her signing spree, her connection with Animal and director Sandeep Reddy Vanga, being an outsider and her first days of living in Mumbai, and much more

Jan 17, 2025 | forbesindia.com | Kunal Purandare |Kathakali Chanda

Q. How did you’ll decide to start the league and what is the idea behind it? Global Sports was brought to me by Shashank Khaitan, a prolific filmmaker and a dear friend, and I could see way back then that his passion was so immense. And then when I did my research, I realised that pickleball is going to be an eventual revolution. It’s going to really pick up. Because it’s a sport and no matter how old you are, you can get into it for the first time. I am in my 50s and I am playing pickleball.

Jan 10, 2025 | forbesindia.com | Kunal Purandare

Q. Did the success of Tumbbad when it re-released surprise you? Actually not. The fact that it re-released was a surprise. I wasn’t surprised with the success because when I had made the film, I knew it would receive a lot of love from the audiences. It didn’t do as well as it should have in 2018. We didn’t market it properly… we couldn’t take it to people. Also, the time then was different. You wouldn’t get a release date. This time we got a free run for a month. It’s all about destiny. Q.

Jan 3, 2025 | forbesindia.com | Kunal Purandare

A few rejections later, she bagged some print and television commercials, one of which was for Santoor soap. That advertisement got her to Mumbai when she was 20 and gave her the freedom she had been yearning for. “I wanted to shift immediately because I felt a sense of connect [with the city]. When I got here, I was like, ‘Wow, I can do anything, I can go anywhere’. You also feel safe as a girl in Mumbai. Freedom is something I craved,” the actor explains.