a quick read on the trump tariffs imposed today. they will hurt, yes, but India didn’t do as badly as feared, and there are medium to long term benefits from competition and reduced protective tariff walls.
Here's that same tale done by a different creator-team (as you can imagine, everyone and his brother are now scrambling to re-create/re-tell their favourite tales from mythology and post them online)
This one looks like an episode:
My comment: Just as the sage Vyasa needed the help of Ganesha to transcribe the Mahabharat, likewise it seems that Indian content creators need the help of AI to render things like mythology. When there is a gap between aspirations and abilities, then there's the hope that new advanced tools like AI may be able to span that gap.
Their voice acting has been improving over previous earlier work which left a lot to be desired:
@ 3:10 -- We get a post-credits easter egg reveal scene, like in Marvel movies, haha 😁
Move over, Marvel -- there's a new MCU.
MCU = Mahabharat Cinematic Universe
Here's the work of yet another production house with their own take:
(Production needs more quality control)
Forget Lord of the Rings. or Game of Thrones -- it's raining Mahabharat stories now. There seem to be more studios and storytellers than there are stories available to tell. Should I be welcoming this flood of devotionalism - or should I see its sudden copious quantity as a kind of spam?
Move over, Hollywood -- here comes Holy-wood.
Perhaps it's a bit of a self-indulgent use of resources compared to using AI to cure cancer, though (but oh well, we Indians are known to be pretty self-indulgent... so... indulge away... carry on.)
My instinct would be to use a flagship series to help launch a streaming service, like an Indian nationalist version of Netflix, so that you build up your own ecosystem around your own hub, instead of having to piggyback off somebody else's. But you can't copyright the Mahabharat, since it's prior art. Maybe someone will start a Kurukshetra channel to show "All Mahabharat, All the Time"
