PVR-INOX merger should get done by Feb next year: Director Siddharth Jain

'We would love to have more players entering the market because that is how the business will grow'

The merger of the country's largest and second-largest multiplex chains, PVR and Inox, is on track to be completed by the end of the current financial year, Siddharth Jain, director of the Inox group, said in a conversation with Viveat Susan Pinto. He spells out his role in the merged entity, and his vision for the group, which also produces industrial and medical gases, and cryogenic equipment under two separate companies. Edited Excerpts:

How is the merger process going? What will be your role in the merged entity?

The process is going well. It is in its final stages. We