Your binge-watching habit is creating jobs

Two years ago, 25-year-old Animesh Panwar was fretting over how to cough up next month’s rent for the Andheri flat he shared with three others and even debating whether to return to Ajmer, the hometown he left two years earlier to make it big in the fickle world of entertainment. The work the aspiring director was getting was “monotonous and mindless” rather than creative. “Going independent was the only other option. And that left me with no work and no money for months,” he recounts.

Cut to 2019. Now 27, Animesh is working on two shows, brings home a decent pay cheque, doesn’t need roomies to split rent and even had to refuse work. “I’ve not slept for more than four hours a night since November 2017!” he says.