Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur plans to start an AI-focused film school in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum district

In Mumbai’s Dharavi slum zone, seasoned director Shekhar Kapur intends to establish an AI-focused film school.
Variety reports that the project relies on Kapur’s ten years of experience working with Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman to operate The Dharavi Project, a hip-hop and rap project in Dharavi in collaboration with Universal Music that has effectively catapulted a number of pupils to national fame.

Shekhar Kapur gave the site a detailed explanation of his ambitions, saying, “Those kids have become national stars.” I’ve been told for years, ‘Please build a film school.’ I believe artificial intelligence (AI) is a new trend in film, which is why I’m opening a film school in Dharavi.”

Kapur referred to artificial intelligence as the most “democratic technology.”
“Despite what everyone claims, artificial intelligence is the most democratic technology that has emerged. Because I am aware that this 15-year-old girl from a Mumbai slum who understands prompting and would be able to make one-, two-, or ten-minute films simply by sitting at a computer will be my competition in the future, not the world’s greatest directors,” he said.

He went on to say that everyone who has access to and knowledge of such technology has the potential to become “the greatest filmmaker in the world.”

The precise date of the school’s opening has not yet been announced.
Shekhar Kapur is now working on the follow-up to his popular 1983 movie “Masoom.”

“In February or March, I will begin filming; the screenplay is ready. “I discovered I had left the ‘Masoom 2’ script on the airplane seat while I was flying from Dubai to Delhi,” Kapur remembered in an interview with ANI. “However, I was given it back, and a flight attendant wrote me a note stating that this movie would be just as excellent as Masoom, which was a very wonderful movie. You see, there must be something to it since it returned even after being abandoned. “It’s fate,” the director said.

While maintaining the fundamental principles that made the first “Masoom” so cherished, the sequel promises a new plot.
Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpayee, and his daughter Kaveri are among the celebrities who will be part of the cast, according to Kapur.