Digging Deeper- A cinematic take on the world of business

Films are a business – a big, messy, sweaty business.

From the film franchises in Hollywood that rake in billions to the films here in India, where the benchmark seems to graduate in almost logarithmic fashion – 100 crore clubs are passé, it’s the era of the 1000 crore club – the business of films is a fascinating one.

While the business of films – the money involved in everything from the first word put down on paper to the film’s eventual settling down on a Netflix or an Amazon Prime – demands a series entirely its own, on this series, we flip the idea – we will take a look at how films have depicted the world of business not their own.

On Digging Deeper, we take a look at some films that cast their lenses on the stock market, the banking sector, financial regulators... basically plenty of pinstriped suits and suspenders, caffeine and cocaine, stock shots of the bull on Wall Street, and lots of hands-free sets. Lots. On this first episode of the series, we take a look at six films – feature and documentary – that spoke about the business of business.