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QUATIMD features Sonali Bendre in a cameo
MUMBAI: Milan Luthria‘s Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobara (OUATIMD) features Sonali
Bendre in a “guest appearance”. Her association with the director goes back a long way and that is why she agreed to be a part of the underworld drama.
Produced by Balaji Motion Pictures, the film features her as Mumtaz. She will be seen on the big screen after a gap of nearly a decade when the film releases on 15 Aug.
Sonali‘s last big screen outing was again a guest appearance in Shah Rukh Khan, Priety Zinta and Saif Ali Khan starrer Kal Ho Naa Ho, in which she had played a doctor.
OUATIMD stars Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha in the main lead.
Another reason for Sonali to give a nod to OUATIMD was its producer Shobha Kapoor, who is a good friend of her mother-in-law.
“Shobha aunty has been friends with my mother-in-law for the past 40 years. So, when she calls her and asks for me to do something, I can‘t say no to her. So it‘s just that,” said the actress known for films like Sarfarosh and Zakhm.
“I have not charged them for anything. So it‘s not a professional kind of a thing for me, it‘s just a guest appearance that I am doing for the people that are involved in it. It‘s a very interesting literal role,” added the 38-year-old actress.
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Viral AI video invites tech leaders to Delhi AI Film Festival
Sam Altman, Bill Gates and Sundar Pichai star in Hindi cinema style spoof at Qutub Minar event
DELHI: A hilarious AI-generated video casting OpenAI chief Sam Altman, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Google CEO Sundar Pichai as unlikely Hindi cinema heroes has taken the internet by storm.
The clip, shared by tech entrepreneur Chandan Perla, cleverly recreates a comic scene from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, the cult 2011 film directed by Zoya Akhtar. Using AI face-swapping wizardry, the video superimposes the global tech titans onto the characters originally played by Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar during a mock conference call scene.
The result is a surreal mash-up of Silicon Valley and Spanish road-trip nostalgia, complete with familiar expressions and perfectly timed comic pauses. Even those who cannot tell their algorithms from their auteurs are finding it hard not to smile.
But this is more than just a bit of internet mischief. The video serves as a playful invitation to Delhi’s first-ever AI Film Festival, set to take place on 17 February at the iconic Qutub Minar as part of the India AI Impact Summit.
Billed as a premier showcase for AI-generated cinema, the India AI Film Festival promises global premieres, panel discussions and an awards ceremony beneath the historic monument’s towering silhouette. Over 500 founders, celebrities, investors, policymakers and AI leaders are expected to attend.
The event is being led by Invideo, with participation from Nvidia. Among the featured speakers is Vishal Dhupar, managing director of Nvidia Asia South. The evening will culminate in an awards ceremony celebrating standout AI films, with prizes worth 12,000 dollars up for grabs.
In short, it is lights, camera, computation. If the viral video is anything to go by, artificial intelligence may not just be writing code but rewriting the script for how technology meets culture.
