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Exploring stresses through film a major challenge for filmmakers
NEW DELHI: The cinematic medium provides a means to filmmakers to explore multifarious problems facing mankind in the modern day world of tensions and stresses.
Filmmakers who addressed today’s sessions of the Osian’s Learning Experience referred directly or indirectly to the tensions and anxieties facing today’s world.
OLE is the new concept introduced at the ongoing Eleventh Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival which commenced on 24 October and will continue till 30 October at the Sirifort Auditorium.
OLE is aimed at taking the study of filmmaking to an aesthetic level. The Festival has been organised in the previous years by the Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art in association with the Delhi Government.
Director Amit Dutta said he uses stories of men and women – and the way they see each other – to explore his fascination of dealing with the emotion of anxiety.
He summarized his film, Man’s women and other stories as a tryst of “transparent images, a graph of brutality where women takes over at the end,” to which the audience added “movement in spaces with brutal violence”.
He said “it is easier to make pure cinema, the experimental cinema, with less money” without the hindrance of “ethnographic detailing”, and where just an “idea of beauty and grace suffices”.
Anxiety was an eternal emotion, he said, adding that this was the reason he had still not been able to understand the complexities in life.
In the session on ‘The Long Night’ about the political dissidence in Syria, director Hatem Mohamad Ali said “the present turbulent times and obscure present and future of Syria has lent an escapist tendency to TV serial makers, making them take refuge in the past.
The film has not been released yet in Syria though it has travelled to several countries in festivals, he added.
Hatem said the film deals with a range of emotions. Though ‘joy’ is not one among them, it “offers a ray of hope towards the end” because he believes “that even if life is too hard and pessimistic, cinema should have hope even while ensuring it must not lie”.
In another session which was on the film ‘Supermen of Malegaon’, a documentary on the making of the film ‘Malegaon ka Superman’ which has proved to be very popular at the Festival, the director Faiza Ahmad Khan said she had attempted to show “the contrasting background of gory communal violence that the region of Malegaon witnesses and the ease and enthusiasm with which the local people delve in filmmaking” as that inspired her towards making this documentary. Nasir who made the original feature film and a crew member Shafiq were also present.
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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.
