EntertainmentPosted at: Nov 11 2025 5:46PM


It's a question of whether we let our creation become a Frankenstein: actor Parambrata on AI

Kolkata, Nov 11 (UNI) Amidst the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cinema, various stakeholders here acknowledged its transformative role while simultaneously advising caution, saying it must remain a servant to imagination rather than its substitute.
A seminar titled"AI: Future of Cinema?" at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on Monday brought together directors, an actor, a sound designer, a cinematographer and an executive producer who ventured into a thought-provoking exploration of how artificial intelligence could reshape or disrupt the future of cinematic storytelling
Referring to writer Mary Shelley's classic 19th-century masterpiece, where human invention spirals out of control, actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee remarked, "So it's a question of whether we let our creation become a Frankenstein".
Bedabrata Pain, a scientist-turned-filmmaker, regarded AI as both an opportunity and a caution. "Every technology, I believe, whether it's a laptop, you know, when the computers came, everybody said, 'Oh, there's going to be job loss.' What happened? Things settled, right? The same thing will happen with AI.
"But what AI can do is that it can recognise patterns, and as a result, it can make you do things, for instance, muscle movements of your face, and as a result, certain facial expressions. Not everything, but some, it can do very well. So we have to understand how AI works, we have to understand how it does clustering, of different patterns. So it's a great pattern recognition machine."
Chatterjee admitted he has mixed feelings about it. "As an actor, it sort of, I think, disrupts me, going by the standard ideas about AI. Why? Because it's going to take away my job. As a director, I look at it as a collaborator. Why? Because as said, in other direction, you need to keep pitching.
"As a producer, again, going by the standard ideas floating around in the market, it's an enabler. Why? Because I get to make more for less."
Sound designer Rabiranjan Maitra shared a technical concern, noting that AI often removes the human feel from sound. "It can isolate dialogue or clean noise, but it doesn't understand the feeling. What I need to target is the tonal spectrum, okay? Noise is diegetic. If it's diegetic, it's friendly. So they are treating it as a podcast voiceover.
"So everything is getting flattened out, there are no accents left, there are no punctuations left."
However, cinematographer Sunny Joseph warned that AI still fails to replicate human emotions.
"Though AI can imitate the face muscles, it is not yet an expert at producing, you know, because without emotion, ultimately on the screen, what we are conveying or transferring is emotion. So, the software doesn't have any emotion. So, how can that creation have an emotion or empathy? It cannot," he said.
Citing an example, Joseph said once he gave an AI chatbot a prompt to generate a 15-minute Andrei Tarkovsky style script and "it did a hauntingly beautiful job at it." He amusingly added, "I'm still waiting to make film out of it." UNI NST SSP
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