Murdoch, who no longer holds a role in his family's media empire, is teaming up with Shankar via Lupa Systems, the New York and Mumbai-based investment firm he established in 2019. Financial terms and details about the partnership were not disclosed. But the venture reunites the duo spent after they spent years working together building Star into a dominant television and streaming player in India and Asia, prior to its sale to Disney as part of the historic 21st Century Fox acquisition. At the time of the Fox-Disney deal in 2018, some analysts referred to Star as the crown jewel of the whole acquisition, worth as much as $17 billion of the $72 billion that Disney was paying for the Murdoch family's entertainment assets.