The real reason he gets away with it isn't because of Netflix, it's because his dad was the CEO of Standard Chartered's European and Asian divisions, Vis Shankar. Vis is also now the CEO of a massive investment firm across Africa, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia,
Gateway.
I've come back, two years after this post, to mention two things:
1. Adi Shankar has been having a very hard time that one could only describe as "Max Landis-esque." The least offensive thing he's done lately is admit he specifically chose to adapt Devil May Cry because he thought the franchise was dead, and was very mad when he learned DMC5 was releasing because it meant he wouldn't have as much control over the property as he wanted. Below is a video of him admitting to exactly this.
This is also very likely why he targeted the very-dead Castlevania IP, to note.
Additionally: Through my not-interested-in-PLing-about means of familiarity with him, while I can't verify anything (So treat this as a banal rumor), I can say he's apparently been far more hostile and reactive to people in-person and off-camera. I expect a public (but ultimately very uninteresting) meltdown within the next year.
2. My statement quoted above about his CEO father is I believe being memory holed. If you look up "Adi Shankar" "Vis Shankar" or any variation you will only find this thread and no articles mentioning it. Any truncation or modification would get you information on the Indian philosopher of the same name. His Wikipedia article serves as the only remaining, live non-KF source of the statement about his familial connections and I wouldn't be shocked if he tries to get it removed, as the article itself now 404s and redirects to the AsiaOnline homepage. If I were a less retarded man back then, I would've archived everything in very high quality.
...Fortunately, I am a less retarded man now, and while the original article is gone, the
wayback machine not only has its textual contents archived, I've added the Wayback Machine copy to
archive.today and
ghostarchive, I've also uploaded the HTML of the Wayback archive as a local archive of sorts, attached below.
I think Adi
might become a DFE risk but it's too early to say.
