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Dabaang sweeps, Shah Rukh Khan reigns at IIFA awards
MUMBAI: The 12th Videocon d2h Weekend drew to a close on Saturday last with the presentation of the Floriana IIFA Awards. The ceremony, part of a three-day event, took place before more than 22,000 fans who were present at the Rogers Center in Toronto.
The Salman Khan-starrer Dabangg and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer My Name is Khan won the top honours. The Arbaaz Khan made film won six awards including the best picture award and Shah Rukh Khan took home the award for best actor for his performance in the Karan Johar directed My Name Is Khan.
The award for the best actress was notched up by Anushka Sharma for Band Baaja Baaraat while co-star Ranveer Singh won the award for best debut male. Together, they won the award for the hottest pair.
Sonakshi Sinha won the award for best debut female for her role in Dabaang. Other awards received by the Dabangg cast and crew were: best
screenplay award to Abhinav Kahsyap and Dileep Shukla; best music direction award to Sajid-Wajid and Lalit Pandit; best female playback singer award to Mamta Sharma for her song Munni Badnaam; best male playback singer to Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for Tere Mast Mast Do Nain; and Sonu Sood who received the award for best performance in a negative role.
Sharmila Tagore and Dharmendra were presented with outstanding achievement awards. Others who made it big were Karan Johar who bagged
the best director award for My Name Is Khan; Arjun Rampal who won the best supporting actor award for the Prakash Jha film Rajneeti; and Prachi Desai who got the best supporting actress award for Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai.
The night’s festivities came to a close with Shah Rukh Khan hosting a Bollywood Dance-Master Class in which he imitated signature dances including Aamir Khan’s Kya Bolti Tu and Salman Khan’s popular Dabangg dance. He ended with his own song Tujhe Dekha Toh Ye Jaane Sanam from Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge.
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Jio Studios unveils AI-powered Krishna teaser at NAB Show 2026
Global first look of Krishna uses Galleri5 AI pipeline on Azure, Historyverse slate as Jio’s Dhurandhar crosses Rs 3,000cr worldwide.
MUMBAI: Krishna has just dropped a divine teaser and this time the gods are powered by silicon, not just scripture. Jio Studios and Collective Studios’ Historyverse stole the spotlight at the NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas with the world’s first teaser for their upcoming theatrical feature Krishna, directed by Manu Anand. The big reveal happened during Microsoft’s keynote “Powering Intelligent Media, From AI Experimentation to Real-World Impact,” where the film’s AI-native production pipeline took centre stage alongside Collective Artists Network’s in-house platform, Galleri5.
At the heart of this mythological spectacle lies a fresh cinematic workflow built by Galleri5 on Microsoft Azure’s advanced AI and cloud infrastructure. Forget bolting AI onto traditional VFX or animation, this is an end-to-end, production-grade system woven into every layer: world-building, character creation, shot design and final output. Yet the storytelling remains firmly director-led, emphasising emotional depth, stillness, music and performance rather than pure spectacle. The result? Large-format theatrical cinema rooted in Indian history and culture, but conceived in ways that were simply not possible before.
Collective Artists Network runs Galleri5 natively on Azure, leveraging Microsoft Foundry and cutting-edge AI tools to handle film, episodic and advertising workflows in a secure enterprise environment. Microsoft highlighted Collective as a “Frontier” organisation successfully moving AI from pilot projects to real production-scale deployment in cinema. The technology is also on display at Microsoft’s NAB booth in the West Hall (Booth W1731).
Jio Studios (Media & Content Business, Reliance Industries), president Jyoti Deshpande said the project advances the studio’s mission to take Indian stories global with scale, ambition and authenticity, “With Krishna, we are embracing cutting-edge AI-led filmmaking while democratising these tools to make them more accessible, intuitive and cost-effective for storytellers everywhere.”
Collective Artists Network founder & group CEO Vijay Subramaniam added, “We’re using technology developed in India to carry our culture and history to audiences worldwide at a scale never seen before.”
Microsoft, vice president for telco media & entertainment, gaming Silvia Candiani noted that the media industry has reached an inflection point, “AI is no longer about experimentation but delivering real impact at production scale… By building AI-native creative systems on Microsoft Azure, Collective exemplifies how storytellers can unlock new formats, move faster and realise a true return on intelligence while keeping human creativity at the centre.”
Krishna forms part of Historyverse, Collective Studios’ ambitious slate of history and culture-driven IPs. The slate draws from iconic figures and traditions that shaped the Indian subcontinent, including stories inspired by Kali, Karna and Durga. It builds on the already-released Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh series, showing how ancient narratives can be reimagined for modern screens.
Jio Studios, India’s leading content studio and the media and content arm of Reliance Industries, continues its blockbuster run. The studio’s Dhurandhar franchise led by Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar: The Revenge has become the first Indian film series to cross Rs 3,000 crore worldwide. It also delivered three consecutive years of India’s highest-grossing Hindi films: Stree 2 (2024), Dhurandhar (2025) and Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026). In just eight years, Jio Studios has assembled a library of over 160 films and series, with more than 60 titles winning over 500 awards. Other notable successes include Laapataa Ladies (India’s official Oscar entry 2025), Stree, Article 370, Shaitaan and Mrs.
The NAB unveiling marks another step in Jio Studios and Collective’s push to blend Indian storytelling talent with frontier technology proving that the future of cinema may well be both ancient in spirit and thoroughly modern in execution. For audiences who love epic tales with a fresh twist, Krishna promises to deliver divine drama, this time with a little help from the cloud.
