In a welcomed development for the industry and cinema lovers. Phantom Films will continue to give us more content as Filmmaker Madhu Mantena buys Vikas Bahl, Anurag Kashyap, and Vikramaditya Motwane’s stake in the production house. In October 2018, filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Madhu Mantena and Vikas Bahl had decided to end their 5-year-old partnership in Phantom.

Now, with the efforts by Madhu Mantena, Phantom which ruled over the last decade with projects like Lootera, Super 30, Gangs of Wasseypur, Udta Punjab Sacred Games and the likes of the same, will continue to produce films with 83 being the first of the new era for the production house.

Many critics and personalities from the film fraternity hailed it as a welcomed step for the industry, business and content sector. Phantom Films has a strong legacy that it carries along and with this new development, it shall have a great future where Madhu is the enabler.