Sanjay Bhandari

Sanjay Bhandari (SB Consulting) as the director behind the Take II of the financing films, music and entertainment contents. The Take II is normally resorted to when the first take did not give the desired effect. The reason could be acting, the light, the camera movement or whatever. The fact is that Take II is the metaphor for the unending search for perfection – on screen.

In terms of history, there was the era of Private Financers and film family business, and there is the Take II –Bank & Institutional financing of Films – in all of which he is a pioneer & a leader

He has a successful track record of sourcing finances and financial adviser for over a period of 15 years, managed over 150 movies and also sourced first time in Indian Banking History against Film & Music IPR. He has so far sourced over Rs 25 Billion. He has been able to structure financial needs of every Producers and Lending Institutions. He offers a gamut of services that enhance the viability and profitability of film & entertainment companies.

His maiden venture was the funding of the film ‘Aankhen’ starring Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar & others with debut direction of Vipul Shah. This was the first Hindi movie produced and release in 2002 with Institutional funding. The complete venture was a maiden project of the industry as well as Banking / Financial Institutions.

He was also instrumental in raising dollar funding for Bollywood Films from EXIM Bank in 2004 and brought them into films financing. He changed the high interest era that existed then into a competitive mode. The Loan was arranged at about 4-5% pa, surprising a lot of producers along the way, as against then prevailing market rate of 30-36%pa.

He is instrumental in getting several Banks / FI's to film financing foray and recently (2018) he brought L&T Finance into Film Financing. They have financed Films such as “Simmbha’ & Sooryavansi directed and produced by Rohit Shetty.

He has worked for many entertainment companies YRF, Dharma Production, Excel Entertainment, BR Films, Reliance Entertainment, Rohit Shetty Picturez, Sajid Nadiadwala, Venus Music, Tips Industries, & many others.