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Yashraj Sharma

Why has an AI-altered Bollywood movie sparked uproar in India?

Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor on a crowded Varanasi street set during shoot of Raanjhanaa [Eros International]

New Delhi, India – What if Michael had died instead of Sonny in The Godfather? Or if Rose had shared the debris plank, and Jack hadn’t been left to freeze in the Atlantic in Titanic*?

Eros International, one of India’s largest production houses, with more than 4,000 films in its catalogue, has decided to explore this sort of what-if scenario. It has re-released one of its major hits, Raanjhanaa, a 2013 romantic drama, in cinemas – but has used artificial intelligence (AI) to change its tragic end, in which the male lead dies.

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