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Jail and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani to hit theatres on 6 November
MUMBAI: After last week‘s two big releases Aladin and London Dreams, comes the release of another two big films this week – Ramesh Taurani‘s Ajab Prem Ki Amar Kahani and Percept Pictures and Madhur Bhandarkar‘s Jail.
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, touted to be a fun film, is a love story packed with lots of laughs.
The philosophy of Prem (Ranbir Kapoor) is to spread joy for and for this ‘The Happy Club‘ helps him. However, each time he tries to cast a spell of happiness, chaos reigns.
Prem accidentally kidnaps Jenny (Katrina Kaif). Both fall in love with each other so much so that Prem gets set to do all that he can to make her feel the same way about him including helping her run away from her own wedding.
Jail, on the other hand, is a serious film. Going by Madhur Bhandarkar‘s earlier films, this film might turn out to be his vision of today‘s jails.
It is rumoured that the story of Jail is inspired from the life of a techie from Pune who was reportedly picked up by the police for sending a supposed anti-national mail, that subsequently was found to be incorrect, but the life of the techie indeed went for a toss.
The story of the film revolves around Parag Dixit played by Neil Nitin Mukesh who leads a happy and comfortable life with his girlfriend Maansi (Mugdha Godse). However, he lands up in jail following a series of unfortunate events.
Going back to the films that released last week, London Dreams opened strongly and remained mediocre throughout the first week. The film, according to trade pundits, will do good business, if not very good.
On the other hand, Aladin proved to be a debacle right from the opening day. It‘s low business has sent shock waves across the industry. Understandably, its distributors would lose a massive chunk of their investment.
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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.
