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Mudra acquires Kidstuff promos and events
MUMBAI: In line with their vision of growth and expansion, Mudra Communications announced the acquisition of Kidstuff Promos and Events Company (KPE), a promotional agency in the country. Kidstuff Promos and Events, being a promotional marketing services company that is involved in all aspects of below-the-line activities. Mudra will now hold majority stake in this company.
Mudra Communications MD and CEO Madhukar Kamath said, “Promotional marketing today has taken up the marketer’s challenge and evolved from a short term volume building & tactically based discipline into a strategic range of communications options resulting in sales generation. The promotional marketing industry in India is also expected to double from Rs 500 crore in 2004 to about Rs 1,000 crore by 2005. Hence with the acquisition of Kidstuff we can now tap into this huge market & simultaneously provide all of our clients with ‘below the line offering’. Following our aggressive growth strategy we believe we have the first mover advantage in offering this to the market.”
Kidstuff Promos and Events MD Pankaj Wadhwa said, “Today, as the number of brands in the Indian market grows, product differentiation will become a challenge and this differentiation will come from the experience each company provides through their respective campaigns via promotional marketing. The promotional marketing industry has also been growing worldwide. Hence now onboard Mudra, we definitely hope to bring value to our clients through creative and design, research & data management and access to a larger canvass.”
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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.
