K Madhavan: From God’s own country to leading Walt Disney’s Indian mousehouse
As Disney Star India boss, the shy, unassuming K. Madhavan has a larger canvas on which to paint.
16 Apr, 2021 - 08:15 AM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: When The Walt Disney Co international operations and direct-to-consumer chairman Rebecca Campbell was scouting for an executive to fill the big shoes of former Star India, Disney India and APAC head Uday Shankar, she did not have to look far. Though the announcement took some time a-coming, K Madhavan, country manager of Star & Disney India, was the obvious choice. As the overseer of the media conglomerate’s television and studios business in India, Madhavan had worked closely with Uday, until the latter departed in late 2020 to concentrate on an entrepreneurial venture with his former boss James Murdoch.