The Landmark Moment For Indian AI Cinema Kalyug Rising The Beginning Has Secured A Spot Among The Top 10 At The Prestigious Higgsfield Make Your Action Competition
It is indeed a proud moment that the only Indian AI Cinema, Kalyug Rising – The Beginning held a spot among the Top 10 at the Prestigious Higgsfield ‘Make Your Action’ Competition and secured the 9th ranking globally among the 9000 entries over 100 countries and to emerge as one of the winners is a great achievement.
The project brings together filmmaker Prataya Saha’s storytelling ambition with cutting edge with technology and the AI’s first creative studio, Imagine If. The AI’s creative potential rapidly explored its scale globally and got recognised for the cinematic storytelling.
Exploring the benchmark, the Kalyug Rising- The Beginning got launched with Imagine If and marked the evolution of the viral creative journey into a full-fledged AI First Studio. The project grew out with early experimental videos that collectively laid its foundation for the studio with over 60 million views within weeks. The belief was that it could build on that AI can power stories at the global cinematic scale.
At its core, Kalyug Rising – The Beginning is driven by the strong trio.
Pratya Saha the writer and director, Krishna the founder of Imagine If and AI Artist is Ankush Deva. Together they have pushed the boundaries of what AI can achieve in a narrative film making while they have not lost the essence of a story at the forefront keeping it realistic.
The trio did not set out go viral they set out to understand how far an AI can push a storytelling. The global recognition came as by product for the quality, realism, storytelling and their focus from day one. Imagine If believes in building a studio that doesn’t just use AI, it redefines how films and brand stories are created.
Prataya Saha the writer and director of Kalyug Rising – The Beginning always believed AI and live action hybrid filmmaking is the future. AI simply allows to push its scale and ambition further. Collaborating with Imagine If further enabled the vision to be executed at a global standard.
Ankush Deva the AI Artist said for him Kalyug Rising- The Beginning was not just an AI that is a visual output, it’s about building a cinematic language with a goal to push the story to realism to the point where the medium disappears leaving only the clear story.
With the growing slate of AI led films and storytelling brands and projects, the expansion of the film is already underway and Imagine If is hinting at a powerful shift where AI doesn’t just support the storytelling but it will also redefine at the global scale.
