Madhu Varma Mantena is a well-known Hindi, Telugu and Bengali film producer and distributor who started his career by launching a music label named Supreme Recording Company and later set up the Adlabs’ International Operations. He forayed into production by producing the 2003 Telugu film Karthik after which he co-produced Ghajini, and political thrillers like Rakht Charitra and Rann and Autograph in Bengali. In 2011, he co-founded Phantom Films with Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl and Vikramaditya Motwane under which he co-produced famous movies like Lootera, Queen, NH 10, Bombay Velvet, Shaandaar, Udta Punjab, Trapped, Mukkabaaz, Bhavesh Joshi Superhero and Manmarziyaan.