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India's 'Maharaja in Denims' stakes claim in AI film race
The AI-adapted film has been slowed by models that struggle with Indian faces and Sikh history, forcing repeated fixes before its Cannes target.
- The AI-generated film 'Maharaja in Denims' is aiming for a premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May ahead of a global release.
- Based on a 2014 novel by Khushwant Singh, the project began in 2024 with a team of six led by Singh and Intelliflicks co-founder Gurdeep Singh Pall, a former Microsoft executive.
- Singh chose the 'toughest' path of realism, though rapid AI advances frequently delayed production because models were poorly trained for Indian faces and Sikh historical figures.
- While Indian studios embrace AI unlike Hollywood's union-backed strikes, rival productions including 'Chiranjeevi Hanuman: The Eternal' and 'Love You' also compete to launch the first AI-generated Bollywood hit.
- Singh believes AI will democratize cinema, predicting that "an 18-year-old sitting somewhere in a village" will soon challenge major studios using accessible technology.
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India's 'Maharaja in Denims' stakes claim in AI film race
Many filmmakers fear the existential threat of artificial intelligence, but in India the race is on to produce the first hit Bollywood feature generated by the technology.
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