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Coffee with BS: What makes Ajay Bijli the Godfather of India's multiplexes

Things are looking good. And PVR posting its first profit this week, after two dark years, is the cherry on the cake

Ajay Bijli
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Ajay Bijli, Chairman & Managing Director, PVR Ltd | Illustration: Binay Sinha

Veenu Sandhu
“Let’s film him here… It has The Godfather feel to it,” says a member of a camera crew from a leading hotel in Delhi, standing in one of the four cinema halls at the PVR Director’s Cut on the fourth floor of Ambience Mall, Gurugram. Spread out before them is a luxurious theatre with fawn, fine leather-upholstered recliners. Each has a golden side lamp and a mini-table with cup holders and space for plates carefully designed to ensure they don’t reflect light or allow the food to spill as people eat while they watch the movie.

The protagonist of their