Despite success of Aamir Khan’s ‘Dangal’, sackings at Disney continue

How would you explain producing the biggest blockbuster of the year, yet making so little by way of profits that you have to sack 90 staffers? That’s exactly what happened at Walt Disney Pictures India office, where the staff was given pink slips on Monday. Despite Disney being one of the producers of ‘Dangal’, Aamir Khan has walked away with the lion’s share of the profits.

Strangely, lack of business foresight seems to be Disney India’s hallmark. Despite producing huge hits last year like The Jungle Book, Captain America: Civil War and Baaghi, they have been given the short end of the stick every time. “Clearly, it wasn’t a balanced arrangement as Disney was given the raw deal by each producer. It wasn’t difficult to deduce that the business policy in place was failing,” said a senior executive, who left the company in October, on condition of anonymity.