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Adoor Gopalakirshnan gets retrospective & first Masterclass at Osianama
NEW DELHI: The first-ever retrospective in Mumbai of the films of famed filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan and his first-ever Masterclass will be held this month as part of Jashn Osianama.
The Gopalakrishnan retrospective will be from 14 – 18 September at the Liberty theatre in Mumbai with his Masterclass on 19 September.
The event includes a World Cinema Context of some of Gopalakrishnan’s favourite cinematic masterpieces so as to contextualise his cinema a bit more meaningfully.
Two important exhibitions (along with guided tours) from the Osian’s Archive Collection on the “South Indian Contribution to the Hindi Cinematic History” and “Glimpses of Genius: Kurosawa & Ray” accompany these events from 19 to 24 September.
The first Indian Cultural Renaissance Panel Discussion with Gopalakrishnan, Girish Kasaravalli, Dr. Kanak Rele, Gieve Patel, Sen Kapadia & Neville Tuli will take place on 18 September.
Gopalakrishnan’s films being screened include Mukhamukham, Kodiyettam, Kalamandalam Gopi, The Dance of the Enchantress, Ellipathayam, Kathapurshan, Vidheyan and Mathilukal.
In addition, there will be a screening of Pather Panchali by the master craftsman of cinema Satyajit Ray, and Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu by Vipin Vijay.
Global cinema screenings include Rashomon by Akira Kursosawa, Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu, Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky, The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, and Pick Pocket by Robert Bresson.
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Utopai Studios partners Huace to deploy PAI for long form content
Deal includes revenue sharing as Huace adopts AI engine across global ops
MUMBAI: Lights, camera… algorithm, the script just got a silicon co-writer. In a move that signals how storytelling itself is being re-engineered, U.S.-based Utopai Studios has partnered China’s Huace Film & TV Co. Ltd. to bring artificial general intelligence into the heart of long-form content creation.
At the centre of the deal is PAI, Utopai’s cinematic storytelling system, which Huace will deploy as a core engine across its production pipeline from development and creative iteration to global localisation. The partnership includes a large-scale annual usage commitment from Huace, alongside a usage-based revenue-sharing model, underscoring both ambition and commercial confidence on both sides.
For Huace, one of China’s largest film and television companies, the bet is not on automation alone but on scale with control. With distribution spanning over 200 countries and a presence across more than 20 international platforms, including Netflix and YouTube, the company brings a vast content ecosystem where even marginal efficiency gains can translate into significant output shifts. Its extensive TV IP library further positions it as fertile ground for AI-assisted storytelling workflows.
The choice of PAI follows what Huace described as a rigorous evaluation of existing AI tools, many of which remain limited to fragmented use cases such as video generation or editing. What tipped the scales, according to the company, was PAI’s ability to handle long-form narrative complexity maintaining continuity, structure, and creative coherence across entire story arcs rather than isolated clips.
Utopai, for its part, is using the partnership to anchor its international expansion strategy, pitching PAI as an enterprise-ready system built for customisation, privacy, and regulatory adaptability across markets. That positioning becomes particularly relevant as global media companies increasingly scrutinise how AI integrates into proprietary workflows.
The timing is notable. Earlier this month, Utopai upgraded PAI to support three-minute 4K video generation and advanced multi-shot sequencing features designed to tackle one of AI storytelling’s biggest hurdles: consistency across scenes.
What emerges is not just another tech collaboration, but a glimpse into how the grammar of filmmaking could evolve. Because if stories were once crafted frame by frame, the next chapter might just be coded scene by scene.
