First AI movie in Kannada was made by a priest on ₹10 lakh price range in 6 months, with no actors or crew; here is how
Apr 23, 2025 06:03 AM IST
A priest referred to as Narasimha Murthy made a Kannada movie referred to as Love You on a restricted price range and in a restricted time. This is how.
A priest from the Siddehalli village close to Bengaluru, Karnataka, has thrown a curveball on the Kannada movie trade by making a movie on a restricted price range and restricted time with no actors, musicians or crew. Narasimha Murthy used Synthetic Intelligence (AI) to convey to life the story of his desires. Right here’s how he made Sandalwood’s first AI-generated movie. (Additionally Learn: Yash provides prayers at Ujjain’s Mahakaleshwar Temple, performs aarti forward of Ramayana shoot. Watch)
Kannada movie made utterly with AI
Narasimha collaborated with a graphic designer turned AI technician referred to as Nuthan to convey his imaginative and prescient to life. The 95-minute Kannada movie has even been licensed U/A by the Central Board of Movie Certification (CBFC), signalling a milestone for AI-generated movies in India.
The 2-member duo designed the whole lot from the solid to the soundtrack and visuals, together with drone pictures. Thirty totally different AI instruments have been used to finish Love You in six months on a price range of ₹10 lakh, most of which was spent on software program licensing.
How did he do it?
Narasimha spoke to TOI and acknowledged that he needed to make the ‘world’s first AI function movie and launch it’ in theatres. His plan is to display it on only one display to set a file. The movie has 12 unique songs and AI-generated dialogues, although he contributed to the lyrics and dialogues. Regardless of his declare, Love You just isn’t the world’s first AI-generated film, with The place The Robots Develop having already been launched in 2024.
Speaking about how the CBFC reacted, he informed them, “Even the regional censor officer identified inconsistencies within the characters’ options from scene to scene. Creating emotional expressions was a problem, and lip-syncing is much from superb.” Nevertheless, the board was impressed by the ‘movie’s ambition and innovation’.
Nuthan acknowledged that AI expertise was growing so quick, the present instruments are far superior than what they used, “The instruments we used are already six months outdated. If we recreated the identical movie at present, it could be a thousand instances higher.” Narasimha already has two extra AI-generated tasks based mostly on Bengaluru’s founder, Kempe Gowda, and historic determine Immadi Pulikeshi within the works.
