Filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane took to social media on Tuesday to throw shade on an AI-generated film.
Recently, a mythological film based on Lord Hanuman called Chiranjeevi Hanuman - The Eternal was announced by the makers. The film, as per an IANS report, is described as “a new-age production which draws deeply from the sacred epic of the Ramayaṇa and revered Puraṇic texts, and re-creates centuries-old stories, using cutting-edge AI, into a visual odyssey.”
The CTRL director took to his Instagram stories on Tuesday to share the film’s poster and wrote an ominous and angry note, “And so it begins… Who TF needs writers and directors when it’s ‘Made in AI'.”
It is to be noted that there seems to be no director or editor for Chiranjeevi Hanuman. The film has apparently been “anchored by a team of over 50+ engineers, who work closely with cultural scholars and literary experts to script an authentic narrative.”
The advent of artificial intelligence is looming over the need of writers, directors and actors in filmmaking. The technology is increasingly becoming a tool for production houses to alter a director’s vision. Recently, a controversy erupted when the climax of Aanand L Rai’s Raanjhanaa was AI-altered into a ‘happy’ one by the film’s production house Eros International. Criticising the move, Aanand had said, "Let me say this as clearly as I can: I do not support or endorse the AI-altered version of Raanjhanaa. It is unauthorised. I had no role in it. Neither did the team that made the film. And whatever it claims to be, it is not the film we intended, or made."
"To cloak a film’s emotional legacy in a synthetic cape without consent, is not a creative act. It’s an abject betrayal of everything we built," he had said.
