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Channel [V] opens its 2nd café in Gurgaon
MUMBAI: In line with its plans of opening 30 outlets over five years, yuth entertainment channel, Channel [V], has opened the second outlet of its café, ‘[V] Spot Café + Bar‘, in Gurgaon.
The first outlet was launched last year in Saket, New Delhi.
Pune and Bangalore will be the next stop. Said Channel [V] EVP and GM Prem Kamath, “Gurgaon is the second among the 30 outlets that have been planned over the next 5 years. Pune and Bangalore will be up in the next three months. While it serves as a great on–ground presence for the brand, it is also proving to be a very robust revenue generator. The Gurgaon outlet is being launched with a 3 day ‘I Love Gurgaon’ festival where local talent will get a chance to perform with established professionals.”
The café not only offers budding artists on air coverage but also gives its customers a chance to record video message for anyone on the Video wall shown later on Channel [V].
“It’s time to say goodbye to the dreary long drives to Delhi in search of entertainment, as [v] Spot Café+Bar is now in Gurgaon!! It’s time to hit the Spot in your very own neighbourhood,” [v] Spot Café+Bar leisure streak hospitality master franchisee director Devdeep Singh said.
Youth preferences in music, style, products, food, technology and entertainment have all been kept in mind while working on the offerings of the café. Each element in the café gets its inspiration from various themes associated with Channel [V], the channel said.
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Galleri5 launches India’s first AI cinema OS at India AI Summit
Collective Artists Network unveils end-to-end production platform powering Mahabharat series and Hanuman teaser.
MUMBAI: India’s cinema just got an AI operating system upgrade because why settle for tools when you can have a full production command centre? Collective Artists Network and Galleri5 today unveiled Galleri5 AI Studio at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, billing it as the country’s first cinema-native production technology platform. Launched on 20 February 2026, the system acts as an end-to-end orchestration layer for film and television, integrating generative AI, LoRA-driven character architecture, controlled shot pipelines, 3D/VFX tools, lip-sync, upscaling, quality control, and delivery, all tuned for theatrical and broadcast standards.
Unlike piecemeal AI tools, Galleri5 controls the entire stack from script and world-building to final master output. Filmmakers retain creative authorship, continuity, and IP security while slashing timelines from years to months.
The platform is already in live use at scale. Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh, an AI-powered series produced under Collective’s Historyverse banner, is airing on Star Plus and streaming on JioHotstar, ranking among the top-watched shows in its slot. Meanwhile, Chiranjeevi Hanuman – The Eternal (produced by Star Studios 18) dropped its teaser on IMAX screens, leveraging Galleri5’s infrastructure for the visuals.
Collective Artists Network founder and group CEO Vijay Subramaniam said, “For India to lead in the next era of storytelling, we have to think beyond tools and start building systems. This is about putting durable production infrastructure in place so creators can dream bigger, producers can execute faster, and our stories can travel further.”
Galleri5 partner at Collective and CEO Rahul Regulapati added, “Cinema requires precision, repeatability, and control. Off-the-shelf AI doesn’t solve that. Orchestration does. We built an operating system where technology bends to filmmaking, not the other way around.”
Under Historyverse, Collective Studios is developing a slate including Hanuman, Krishna, Shiva, and Shivaji blending advanced AI systems with traditional craft. The summit session featured directors from Hanuman, Krishna, and Shiva alongside Collective leaders, diving into real-world case studies: what delivers on screen, what glitches, and how production economics are shifting.
At a summit packed with global tech brass and policymakers, Galleri5 stakes a bold claim, cinema’s future belongs to integrated systems, not isolated gadgets and India is building one right now. Whether you’re a filmmaker eyeing faster workflows or just curious about AI remaking epics, this OS could be the script-flip the industry didn’t see coming.
