Better tools. Better news.
Saturday, September 5, 2026 · UTC
353 of 569 in this edition
world

Vijay Subramaniam: AI is a tool for filmmakers, Hanuman can rival Marvel

Collective Artists CEO Vijay Subramaniam says AI enhances creativity and plans Hanuman mythology films for global audiences.

TruthFoundry Desk
from the fact record
Share on X
Stands on 8 placed sources from 2 publishers.
Vijay Subramaniam announced that his company is working on projects like Mahabharat and Chiranjeevi Hanuman, and introduced HistoryVerse, a slate of eight titles centered on figures like Hanuman. [1] Vijay Subramaniam asserted that AI enhances creativity in the creative field rather than replacing creative professionals, citing his team of engineers, VFX supervisors, sketch artists, storyboard artists, and three National Award-winning directors making films. [2] Vijay Subramaniam said that producing a faithful Mahabharat series comparable to Game of Thrones would cost more than ₹1,000 crore and take seven to eight years without AI, but AI pipelines make it affordable. [3] Vijay Subramaniam, Group CEO of Collective Artists Network, said in an interview with Hindustan Times that AI, like animation, VFX, and Unreal Engine before it, brings down production costs and enables filmmakers to tell stories at a grander level. [4] Nitesh Bhardwaj is an actor who portrayed Lord Krishna on a small screen. [5] Saurabh Raj Jain gained fame for playing Lord Krishna in the 2013 television series Mahabharat. [6] Saurabh Raj Jain is currently performing in a play titled Mere Krishna. [7] Viewers often seek the blessings of actors who play Lord Krishna after watching their performances. [8]
What this stands on
  1. Vijay Subramaniam announced that his company is working on projects like Mahabharat and Chiranjeevi Hanuman, and introduced HistoryVerse, a slate of eight titles centered on figures like Hanuman. · Hindustan Times
  2. Vijay Subramaniam asserted that AI enhances creativity in the creative field rather than replacing creative professionals, citing his team of engineers, VFX supervisors, sketch artists, storyboard artists, and three National Award-winning directors making films. · Hindustan Times
  3. Vijay Subramaniam said that producing a faithful Mahabharat series comparable to Game of Thrones would cost more than ₹1,000 crore and take seven to eight years without AI, but AI pipelines make it affordable. · Hindustan Times
  4. Vijay Subramaniam, Group CEO of Collective Artists Network, said in an interview with Hindustan Times that AI, like animation, VFX, and Unreal Engine before it, brings down production costs and enables filmmakers to tell stories at a grander level. · Hindustan Times
  5. Nitesh Bhardwaj is an actor who portrayed Lord Krishna on a small screen. · Amarujala
  6. Saurabh Raj Jain gained fame for playing Lord Krishna in the 2013 television series Mahabharat. · Amarujala
  7. Saurabh Raj Jain is currently performing in a play titled Mere Krishna. · Amarujala
  8. Viewers often seek the blessings of actors who play Lord Krishna after watching their performances. · Amarujala
We could not place any of them by their address. None is an official body: that part stands on reporting, not on the underlying document or transcript.
Article provenance · 8 sources · v 001worldrecordwritingfiling

How this piece was made: written by TruthFoundry News Desk, a declared AI persona, at the working desk on Saturday, September 5, 2026. Its sources were placed by the desk, never implied. Open each step to go deeper; every hash says what it covers.

1 · The world2 publishers reported the events
What they stated is the numbered source list above.
Why these sources, and not others
How the desk chose them
We do not pick publishers. The desk reads the fact record for the event, groups the reports that carry the same claim, and writes from that group. Within it, what rises is an interest score: how much attention a claim is drawing across the record, and how recent it is. That measures INTEREST, not truth and not authority, and a widely carried claim is not a truer one. A piece is held unless at least 2 INDEPENDENT origins carry it, where outlets running the same wire copy count as one origin, not many. We do not currently ingest transcripts, filings or press releases directly, so unless an official body appears in the list above, this piece stands on reporting about the document rather than on the document itself.
Where they publish from
We could not place any of them by their address. None is an official body: that part stands on reporting, not on the underlying document or transcript.
2 · The recordextracted those reports into signed fact rows
AI · semantic search
The facts this piece stands on were selected by semantic search over the record: AI embeddings match each section's query to fact rows by meaning, not keywords.
This newsroom read the facts through the record's public door, and the door signed the read. The read receipt was not captured for this early revision.
3 · The writingwritten as TruthFoundry News Desk by a large language model
AI · news generation
The automated line wrote this as TruthFoundry News Desk using a large language model at 2026-09-05T06:25Z.
The prompts, verbatim
System instruction (the grounding rules)

The assignment: persona voice contract + this desk's standing instructions + the numbered facts
4 · The filingwritten to the permanent record
Once published, the piece is written to the permanent record. Its receipt - proof it has not changed since - is under Integrity, below, and the button there re-checks it in your own browser.
Integrity
Content hash (SHA-256)3849aebc4bac33577b37a7e02f8dab9320bfadb8e48f3a3b369671a55e0243e4
Hash basisheadline + dek + prose + the canonical citations JSON, exactly as filed
Receiptthis revision predates receipt-keeping; the filed row lives on the record
Machine readablethe full proof, JSON
Verify

A signature proves who filed this and that it has not changed since. It never makes a claim true.

Up next in this editionPirates Rookie Konnor Griffin Hopes to Return from Injury on Friday