We're back with Season 2 of The Indian Dream Podcast

This season going to be all about talking to founders who have built manufacturing or manufacturing related businesses in India!

On this episode, we have Swagatika Das, the founder of Nat Habit joining us to talk to us about how they built a Manufacturing & D2C business together!

Nat Habit is a beauty and personal care brand that took a different approach to building this business from Day 1. From investing in R&D to create new and innovative products to doing all the manufacturing in-house, Nat Habit isn't your usual Beauty and Personal Care D2C Brand.

On the episode, we double click on the R&D Approach and the decision to do in-house manufacturing and how they navigated solving these tough problems to build a Rs. 100 Crore Revenue business!

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Make In India.

The three words that will define the future of the country.

We have a trade deficit of close to $100 Bn with China. That's Rs. 83,000 Crores that leaves the country and isn't used for our own development.

Virtuoso Optoelectronics is a manufacturing company that started in 2015 with the idea of making electronic products in India. Started with circuit boards, then manufactured LEDs and now for the last three years, they've been manufacturing Air Conditioners.

I talk to Sukrit about this fantastic journey of scaling to Rs. 330 Cr in Revenue in 8 years!

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Movie Production. It's something that most of us don't know much about. I host Ashi Dua, Founder of Flying Unicorn Entertainment to talk about her work in producing movies like Lust Stories, Bombay Talkies, Paava Kadhaigal and More!

Episode Timeline:
(01:09) - Introduction of Ashi Dua

(03:39) - Why did Ashi move to Bombay?

(07:12) - Ashi’s introduction to movie production

(10:10) - Anurag’s role in Ashi’s career

(11:53) - Anurag’s style of making movies

(14:42) - What does production entail?

(17:23) - Producer’s involvement in the finances

(18:27) - Producer’s compensation

(19:15) - Bombay Talkies and bringing 4 directors together

(22:17) - How do producers put projects together?

(24:20) - Skills needed to be a producer

(28:37) - Is the industry segregated for producers?

(31:05) - Predicting Bollywood’s trends

(35:17) - Choosing the right platform for a movie

(38:01) - How does someone find their footing in the industry?

(39:45) - The Dhoom Dhaam Company