UTV Communications 
The Producers Guild of India 
Star TV 
MUMBAI -- The Walt Disney Company India has reappointed Mahesh Samat as Managing Director. Samat had left Disney four years ago to establish Epic Television Networks and was founder and MD of The Epic Channel, a Hindi-language entertainment channel focusing on history, folklore and mythology-based content.Samat succeeds Siddharth Roy Kapur who is leaving the company to pursue other business interests. Under Roy Kapur’s leadership Disney endured a spate of box office flops and decided to end Indian film production, instead...
Roy Kapur Films
Siddharth
Roy
Kapur
Founder & Managing Director, Roy Kapur Films / President, Producers Guild of India
After early career steps in consumer goods, the polished Roy Kapur honed his small-screen skills at Star TV in Mumbai, Hong Kong and Dubai. Leaving for UTV in 2005, he struck a key relationship with Ronnie Screwvala and took over as managing director of Disney India after UTV was acquired by the studio and Screwvala stepped aside. When Disney exited Indian film production in 2016, Roy Kapur followed, with the smash hit “Dangal” his last production there. Launching Roy Kapur Films made him one of India’s most in-demand independent producers, with the 2018 effort “The Sky Is Pink, starring crossover star Priyanka Chopra, premiering at this year’s Toronto. He’s also one of the original production gatekeepers for Mukesh Ambani’s hugely powerful telecom Reliance Jio.
