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VisitBritain launches ‘Bollywood Britain Movie Map’
MUMBAI: VisitBritain, Britain‘s national tourism board, has launched Bollywood Britain Movie Map to celebrate the range of film locations featured in popular Indian movies across Great Britain.
Former Miss India and Bollywood actress Gul Panag unveiled the the map here in the presence of Britain‘s Deputy High Commissioner Vicki Treadell and VisitBritain‘s country head Paramjit Bawa.
According to an official release, Bollywood Britain Movie Map is an inside guide to trace the footsteps of Bollywood stars and experience the romance, adventure and excitement of Great Britain. It offers information on some of the most spectacular locations in Bollywood movies including all-time hits like Lamhe, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhie Khushi Khabhie Gham and Bend it like Beckham to recent blockbusters like Namastey London and Cheeni Kum. Besides featuring these shooting locations, it also offers useful tips to Indian visitors on shopping, dining, accommodation, sightseeing and Britain‘s busy sports calendar.
The Bollywood Britain campaign will have particular appeal for Indian tourists with over 23 million Indians going to see a film everyday, adds the release.
“Set-jetting is a great way of marketing a destination and Britain‘s popularity as a location for many of the biggest films has helped VisitBritain to lead the way capitalising on this ‘screen magic.‘ This is a major opportunity for us to remind Indian visitors of one of the enduring appeals of our destination. Visitors are always curious to visit sites where Bollywood films have been shot. The Bollywood Britain Movie Map provides an opportunity for us to bring Indian people closer to Britain,” Bawa commented on the sidelines of the launch event.
Film tourism is an increasingly popular holiday option, especially for Indians. In 2006, the total Indian visitor arrivals in Britain were 366,745 while the total visitor spend was ?315 million, the release says.
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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.
