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Suchi Mukherjee and LimeRoad: The Rise, the V-Mart Acquisition
WomenJul 1, 2026

Suchi Mukherjee and LimeRoad: The Rise, the V-Mart Acquisition

She held a University record at Cambridge. She ran Gumtree to the number one position in the UK. She came back to India at 39, during maternity leave, spotted a jewellery piece in a magazine she could not buy, and founded LimeRoad. Tiger Global backed it. V-Mart eventually acquired it for ₹31 crore.

The Single‑Screen Revival: Against Every Trend, a Chain of Restored Heritage Theatres Is Selling Out Shows—And the Nostalgia Economy Is Just Getting Started
MagazineMay 30, 2026

The Single‑Screen Revival: Against Every Trend, a Chain of Restored Heritage Theatres Is Selling Out Shows—And the Nostalgia Economy Is Just Getting Started

In the winter of 2023, a 74‑year‑old single‑screen theatre in Mumbai's Grant Road district was about to close. The Alfred Theatre, a fading art‑deco relic with a cracked façade, worn velvet seats, and a projection system that had not been upgraded since the early 2000s, had been losing money for years. Its owner, the third generation of a family that had operated the theatre since 1949, had been negotiating with a real‑estate developer who wanted to demolish the building and replace it with a residential tower. The deal was essentially done. The Alfred was going to join the thousands of single‑screen theatres that had been shuttered across India over the past two decades—the casualties of the multiplex revolution, the streaming disruption, and the simple, brutal economics of operating a 900‑seat cinema in an era when the average multiplex auditorium held 200.

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