In a country with far too few festivals and industry touchpoints, every genuine opportunity to meet, pitch, listen, and grow becomes precious. That’s why the evolution of Film Bazaar into WAVES Film Bazaar feels so important — not as a rebrand, but as a step toward the kind of ecosystem our cinema urgently needs.

Mumbai’s Shift After the WAVES Summit

What makes this moment even more striking is the shift we witnessed earlier this year. Mumbai, our commercial heart — the city where deals are made in cafés and stories are born in tiny rooms — had never hosted anything on the scale or spirit of the WAVES Summit. For years, such large-format, globally aligned industry conversations were the domain of festivals abroad or occasional initiatives in Delhi.

The Summit changed that. It showed wha

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