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Golden Kela awards to be preceded by comedy festival
NEW DELHI: The fourth annual Golden Kela Awards to be held to honour the worst in Bollywood will be preceded this year by a two-day festival of comedy and fun.
Iconic comedy films like ‘Jaane bhi do yaaro‘, ‘Andaz Apna Apna‘ and ‘Tere Bin Laden‘ will be screened on 31 March and 1 April and the event will include a Standup Comedy show by Papa CJ and Sanjay Rajoura.
There will be a play on Ghalib by Pierrot’s Troupe which has been running to full houses for several years.
There will also be a ‘Haasya Kavi Sammelan’ (a comic poetry festival) featuring the renowned Surendra Sharma..
There will also be a competition on Standup Comedy as part of the Indian Comedy Festival. On 1 April, the three finalists will meet and compete for the top prize of Rs 1,00,000 along with the chance to be featured on Comedy Central, according to Jatin Varma, Organiser, Indian Comedy Festival and head of Twenty Onwards Media.
There will also be a competition of India’s funniest videos, and these could win a Grand Cash Prize of Rs 1999.
Last year the ceremony was hosted by Cyrus Broacha, and this year the ceremony will also feature the winner of the Short Video Contest, and will feature a very special guest – B-Movie Filmmaker Extraordinaire Kanti Shah!
Kanti Shah is a director and producer of B grade Hindi movies. Best known for the cult film ‘Gunda’ in 1998 (Starring Mithun Da!) and such classics as Loha, Duplicate Sholay, Shaadi Basanti ki Honeymoon Gabbar ka, and Sheela Ki Jawani. Kanti Shah is perhaps the only Director worthy of the title ‘So Bad It’s Good’.
The Golden Kela Awards ceremony will take place on 1 April at Ficci Auditorium. The Golden Kela Awards, the Indian version of Razzies – “Golden Raspberry Awards” which are very popular awards in the West for awarding the worst in the film making industry – will be awarding the worst of Bollywood in the year 2011. Voting is already on at www.goldenkela.com and closes on 31st March’ 2012.
The Comedy Fest will also have several stalls by some of the most fun merchandisers, t-shirt companies, publishers, toy makers etc. Also, there will be Open Mic – Musical acts, amateur standup comedy, juggling and puppets.
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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.
