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Katha Mediatix wins Mobile Plus mandate
MUMBAI: Katha Mediatix has won the brand consulting mandate for Mobile Plus, which is a multi brand mobile, accessories retail brand. The store is promoted by Prabhat telecom.
As part of the creative thought process, Katha Mediatix will create the entire brand personality of the retail store along with visual merchandising for the brand. The campaign budget would be close to Rs 35 million approx to start with.
Katha Mediatix chief creative officer Pabitra Roy said, “Mobile Plus is a platform for consumers who are mobile and technology savvy to have a unique experience with the brand. The creative positioning stands that consumers will always find something more or something plus whenever they engage with the brand. Creatively there is a great scope of work since its categorically not a brand that it speaks only to youth but there are a varied sets of TG and everyone has different aspiration, tastes, likings and lifestyle.”
Mobile Plus director Ranjeet Chaudhury added, “Mobile Plus will also cater and penetrate aggressively into rural segments since 65 per cent of the mobile handset sales are taking place in the rural catchment areas where aspirational level is increasing constantly. Currently we are setting up stores in Mumbai and parts of Maharashtra and then we plan to have stores in major metros before the national communication plan gets initiated.”
Katha Mediatix EVP strategic alliance Aniruddha Pal said, “The media strategy would primarily involve 4 phase communication plan starting with regional communication where the communication would be to prospective distributors and dealers and then there would be aggressive BTL promotions. The communication would be revolving around driving traffic while education and creating awareness about the store.”
There would also be experiential marketing executed for proper brand engagement. There would be ATL campaigns with communication regarding special services of the store and the campaign would start in the early financial year.
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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.
