Madhu Mantena is a successful film producer and media entrepreneur involved in the production and distribution of feature films across Hindi, Telugu and Bengali cinema. In 2008 he co-produced the blockbuster film Ghajini, starring Aamir Khan, which has been the highest grossing Indian feature film till date. Since then Madhu has produced several hit films such as the trilingual Rakht Charitra, the political thriller Rann, Mausam, Jhootha Hi Sahi and the Bengali super hit film Autograph.

In 2011, Madhu co-founded India's first director's production company Phantom Films along with Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl and Vikramaditya Motwane, which went on to deliver several commercial and critical successes including Lootera, the National Award winning film Queen, Hasee Toh Phasee, Bombay Velvet, NH10, Shandaar, Ugly, Masaan, Udta Punjab, Raman Raghav, Trapped, Bhavesh Joshi and the globally acclaimed web series 'Sacred Games' for Netflix.