Last September, I was crafting a magnum opus for Wired about AI use in Bollywood. It was edited, polished, and ready to go on print this year. Then, the fickle news cycle in the US decided that a film industry whose collective yearly revenue is less than Hollywood's biggest hit was, well, not worth it. But while writing, a cinematic prophecy about AI and Indian cinema struck me: AI will midwife India's first true pan-Indian film.

And the proof isn't locked inside a neural net of a shiny lab; it's actually lighting up our screens in YRF's War 2 . How, you ask? Behold 'Visual Dubbing' or 'Vubbing', the tech sorcery that allowed both Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR to speak impeccable Telugu. "But wait," I hear you interrupt, "Jr NTR is Telugu!" Ah, that's the magic trick. The ent

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