Shekhar Kapur to Launch AI-Focengaged Film School in Mumbai’s Dharavi

Celebrated filmproducer Shekhar Kapur has uncovered arranges to create a film school in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum didisconnecte, with a definite cgo in on AI technology in filmmaking.

The initiative produces on Kapur’s decade-lengthy experience running The Dharavi Project alengthyside Oscar-triumphning producer A.R. Rahman, a hip-hop and rap initiative in Dharavi in partnership with Universal Music that has successfilledy started disconnectal students to national stardom.

“Those kids have become national stars,” Kapur telderly Variety. “For years, people have telderly me, ‘Phire commence a film school.’ I’m going to commence a film school in Dharavi, and the reason is becaengage I skinnyk that AI is a recent push in cinema.”

Kapur is comprehendn for his eclectic oeuvre that spans Indian films “Masoom” and “Mr. India,” challenging-hitting biopic “Bandit Queen,” the Oscar-triumphning “Elizabeth” starring Cate Blanchett, “The Four Feathers” starring Heath Ledger, and rom-com “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” He also serves as festival honestor of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

“AI is the most democratic technology [that] has come in, despite what everybody says,” Kapur carry ond. “Becaengage I comprehend that my future competition is not with the hugegest honestors in the world, it is with this 15-year-elderly girl who inhabits in a slum in Mumbai who comprehends prompting and will be able to produce one-minute, two-minute, 10-minute films equitable by sitting at the computer … and will be better than me.”

He inserted that with access to and an empathetic of that technology, someone could become “the fantasticest filmproducer in the world.”

While the exact timeline for the school’s start remains unverifyed, Kapur showd that he has already befirearm the preliminary labor. Talks are on with high profile partners, but details are being kept under wraps at the moment.