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Karan Johar signs multi-year, exclusive deal between Netflix India and Dharma Productions' digital arm Dharmatic

Press Trust of India • September 11, 2019, 08:22:58 IST
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Karan Johar, who first collaborated with Netflix on the 2018 anthology film Lust Stories, is also directing Ghost Stories and producing Guilty for Netflix.

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Karan Johar signs multi-year, exclusive deal between Netflix India and Dharma Productions' digital arm Dharmatic

New Delhi: Streaming giant Netflix on Wednesday, 11 September announced a long-term partnership with Karan Johar’s digital arm Dharmatic Entertainment to create a broad range of new fiction and non-fiction series and films exclusively for its viewers. [caption id=“attachment_5654251” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] ![Karan Johar. Image from Facebook](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/karan-johar-825-4.jpg) Karan Johar. Image from Facebook[/caption] _(Read: Netflix to develop 10 new films in collaboration with Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee)_ Johar, who first collaborated with Netflix on the 2018 anthology film Lust Stories , is also directing Ghost Stories  and producing _Guilty_  for Netflix. The reach of Lust Stories, he said, made him realise that “sky is the limit” with such partnership. “What we have decided to do is basically come together to create content to empower not only ourselves, but also the consumer, and to make sure that we can create diverse content across genres, and engage not just an Indian or diaspora audience but an Asian audience,” Johar told PTI in an interview. His brush with Netflix, the filmmaker added, led to the setting up of Dharmatic. Having grown up in the lap of mainstream cinema, Johar said, he will always have a strong and romantic relationship with celluloid. But the partnership with Netflix offered him freedom from the fear of the Friday box office. “There is one aspect, which is very daunting in all our existence, is the pressure of the Friday box office performance and then the general performance of your film, which looms large on us filmmakers. “But when you have a platform where you can showcase your creativity and your content and you don’t have the pressure of the box office, then you are given wings to fly,” Johar said. According to Monika Shergill, head, Series, International Originals, Netflix India, they were looking forward to Johar’s take on series, which is a relatively new format of storytelling in India. “It will be a brand new sort of storytelling — long format, multi-seasons, across scripted and unscripted. We have seen Karan in a lot of unscripted avatars on linear TV but his version of unscripted on streaming will be something to watch out for,” Shergill told PTI. “Same goes for scripted, the way he immerses you in characters in his films, to have those characters come to you season after season is what we are most excited about that at Netflix.” Srishti Behl Arya, director, International Originals at Netflix India, said the success of Lust Stories was “a major moment” for Netflix in India. “Globally, it was the largest watched original piece of content in any individual market in the first month of its release, which is huge… It was natural that we would head into in a longer and better association,” she added.

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