“If there are no stars in your film, nobody will look at you. If you have Sunny Leone in the film you will get hundreds of dollars but if you have a honest story to tell it's difficult to find producers.”

Indian director, producer, and writer

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian director, producer, and writer in Hindi cinema. He is also a member of the board of India’s Central Board of Film Certification and serves as a cultural representative of Indian cinema at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. His work places him within both filmmaking and film governance. Beyond directing and producing, he has held roles connected to the public regulation and cultural presentation of Indian cinema, which gives his profile a wider institutional dimension as well as an artistic one.