Meet Namit Malhotra, the man putting the ‘super’ in your favourite mutant and monster films
Johnny Depp in Alice Through The Looking Glass
Namit Malhotra is a busy man. His day begins with telecons in India and ends with Skype chats with clients in LA. He lives in London so he can straddle time zones, and channel ever more business to his growing integrated media company. This month alone, Prime Focus is involved in three bigbudget Hollywood releases: The Legend Of Tarzan, Star Trek Beyond and Jason Bourne.
When Malhotra does his job well, his company w ins an Oscar. Case in point: Earlier this year, Prime Focus wasan unexpected winner at the Academy Awards when it took home a trophy for Ex Machina (Yes, the one with Alicia Vikander as a cyborg). In an industry now thriving on VFX-pumped superheroes and monsters, Prime Focus is prime real estate. You don’t get Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan’s numbers in your phonebook without being a big deal.
Originally from Khar, Malhotra is the quintessential Bombay hustler: One who started out animating Mickey Mouse in the Nineties and, recently, reached another milestone with a merger with London-based Double Negative.
Namit, you won your second Oscar this year [the first being for Inception in 2011].
Yeah, everybody expected the big movies like Star Wars, or maybe even The Revenant to win. Ex Machina was an unexpected, low-budget contender. That makes it special.
From being just one of the VFX vendors on James Cameron’s Avatar to this – sounds like quite a journey.
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