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Excerpts:Romantic drama Raanjhanaa, produced by Eros International and directed by Aanand L. Rai, was one of India‘s sleeper hits of 2013. Made for about $3.5 million, it earned $11 million at the Indian box office and became something of a cult classic in the years that followed. (...)Last August, Eros International released a new Tamil version of the movie with its final scenes altered with AI reconstructions so that the romantic lead survives. The new closing sequence — fully synthetic — ends with the opposite of the original’s tragic note, as Dhanush’s character wakes up and smiles in a hospital bed, having survived the assassination attempt. Pradeep Dwivedi, Group CEO of Eros Media World, says the studio never intended to “replace” the original film. “What we explored was a clearly labelled AI-assisted alternate interpretation,” Dwivedi tells THR via email, describing the move simply as an attempt to see whether new technologies could allow audiences to revisit familiar stories in novel ways.Dipankar Mukherjee, co-founder and CEO of Mumbai-based Studio Blo, recently announced a sci-fi series, titled Warlord, to be directed by acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, but created entirely using AI tools. Mukherjee estimates that around 80 percent of Indian films are already using AI extensively in pre-visualization. His company has built its own platform, Kubrick — named after the legendary director — designed to help filmmakers who may not be fluent in prompting tools. Directors upload a shot breakdown, answer a series of questions about characters and locations, and the system generates a storyboard that can be refined from there. The technology is also compressing timelines dramatically. “For a feature-length film made entirely with AI, our production timelines are typically between six and 12 months,” Mukherjee said. “To put that into perspective, a traditional animated feature might take two to three years.”
Asia leaving the west behind as usual. How do we save w*stoid "cinema"?
In the Malayalam film industry, the 2025 feature Rekhachithram went further still — deploying a de-aged AI composite of 74-year-old superstar actor Mammootty, created by feeding more than a thousand photographs of the actor from his younger years into an AI system. The team also used AI to alter the lip movements of the late John Paul, the celebrated Malayalam screenwriter who died in 2022 and who appears in the film via archival footage in scenes recreating the production of Bharathan’s 1985 classic Kathodu Kathoram, for which Paul wrote the screenplay. Using AI, the filmmakers adjusted Paul’s lip movements in the found footage to make him appear to deliver new lines of dialogue. Audiences didn’t flinch. Rekhachithram became the first superhit of 2025 in the Malayalam industry, grossing more than ₹57 crore ($6.7 million) worldwide against a modest budget. The AI elements provoked no discernible backlash; if anything, the novelty of “AI Mammootty” fueled audience curiosity and media coverage that amplified the film’s commercial run.The commercial logic is hard to argue with. Vijay Subramaniam, founder and CEO of Collective Artists Network, believes AI could fundamentally alter the cost equation of Indian cinema. “Can you realistically make a $200 million film in India today? Probably not, because the screen capacity cannot support that level of budget,” he said. “But if technology allows you to tell the same scale of story for $50 million instead of $200 million, everything changes.” His company’s tech arm, Galleri5, has a team of more than 50 engineers developing what Subramaniam calls “India’s largest AI slate” — micro-dramas, digital avatars of celebrity talent, theatrical films and web series.Even more examples in the article:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/india-ai-filmmaking-1236548136/
Hollywood is finished
This is like when they went from Practical effects to cheaper greenscreens & computer generated images. It's the next step in cost cutting they already experimented with it bring back the android Ash in Alien Romulus, and maybe even used it for that dead ghostbuster
>>220334970>>220334977>doesn't read the article>just starts shitting in the threadsaaaaaaaaaaaar
>>220334994>first off-topic post
real question what will happen with all the white collar workers in all the fields once ai takes over in 10 years or so.. especialyl those who are older and used to their ways, what will they do
>>220334975>Mammoottycome on now. all the names in this article sound retarded but this is next level
>Bollywood isn't kin-
>>220335067Lil' Timmy status?
>>220335079>Lil' Timmy status?destroyed
>>220335025my first post was the article excerpts, pajeet
>>220335079>>220335067What a goofy people
>>220334952>India>AIFinally, it's Zack Snyder's time to shine!
lol
God, shut the fuck up about India and Indians already.
>>220335067I like how many Indian action movies just star some middle aged pudgy guy who looks like he should be running a kebab stand.
>>220335471 In America, the sexy guy looks like Channing Tatum or something. In India, the sexy guy looks like a brown version of Wario. Cultural differences.
Does it matter if the CGI is made by a computer or a human being when it's basically just a wagie doing tedious shit for cash in the first place. It's not like it's high art or something.
If a computer can do your job then your job is useless and you should be doing something else.
>>220334975>Probably not, because the screen capacity cannot support that level of budget I hate what jeets have done to the english language
>>220334970India is not Asia no matter how much they want to be lumped in with Japan and Korea so people don't think of them as shit people. They're in the Indian subcontinent. >>220334952The fucked-up part is people are creating AI specifically to replace humans in movies, TV, music, and business.
>>220335471Since most people are starving to death in india, slightly pudgy guys/girls equate to wealth and comfort.
>>220335067>India: "How do we copy Chinese Wuxia movies while making them even more goofy?"
>>220336679A huge chunk of everything iconic about Asia ultimately comes from India, a country in Asia
Yeah the only audience stupid enough to enjoy this garbage are Indians. Color me shocked.
>>220336773Northern India was once Denisovan ASIAN. Buddha himself was born there. Then the Proto-Australoid Indians out-bred and crowded them out to replace them.
>>220336773its like the human centipede but in reverse, with china being the middle.so glad we now live in a world where jeets are nowWE WUZ Nippons N SAAR
Thank you Bharat for permanently trashing Zack Snyder's legacy and making it so that AI consumption is associated with poo baths and lack of toilets.
>>220336773no one is ever going to think of indians as asian saar
>>220336773Israel is in Asia
>>220334952They do enjoy consuming shit, it tracks
>>220334952lol remember when people thought AI will replace us
I'm cautiously optimistic about this. I've been getting more and more into Bollywood ever since Critical Drinker started talking about how it was better than modern Westernslop and I'm pretty impressed
>>220337286they are spiritually indian (shit)
>>220334952So this is how Bollywood falls...>Live by the poo, die by the poo
>>220335079
Who is your favorite AI director?
>>220337941Arronofsky
AI *still* can't make full-length movies without minimal human oversight.Two more weeks, saar!
Indians literally have no souls, its why they cant comprehend the issue with ai slop
>>220335067>>220335079why is every bollywood main character some middleaged dadbod taxidriver looking dude with a mustache?
