EXCLUSIVE: Actor-producer Esha Bargate is launching a production company that aims to challenge how Hollywood views and portrays Indian culture and society.
Esha Bargate Productions will be based in San Francisco, with a stated aim to bring stories from Southeast Asia into the international mainstream.
The India-born Bargate is a former marketing executive whose television credits include Health Mantra with Esha for St Louis’ Fox2 KTVI, Flavors of STL on STL TV and has a lead role in sitcom Patel Motel.
Bargate said she is following in the likes of footsteps of Anushka Sharma, an another actress who ventured into film production through Clean Slate Film; Balaji Telefilms founder Ekta Kapoor; and Zoya Akhtar, the director who founded Tiger Baby Films.
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