A Bold, But Flawed First Step Into AI Cinema

When Nutan, the AI creator, and Narasimhamurthy, the story and screenplay writer, announced Love You as India's first AI-generated film, the news stirred both curiosity and skepticism.

- A SHARADHAA

When Nutan, the AI creator, and Narasimhamurthy, the story and screenplay writer, announced Love You as India's first AI-generated film, the news stirred both curiosity and skepticism. After all, it's not every day that a love story is created not by human hands, but by algorithms—pixels playing characters, and emotions shaped by code.

With its release, Love You takes a bold, though uneven step into unexplored cinematic territory. It dares to ask: can artificial intelligence truly capture the subtle range of human emotion? Based on this debut, the answer—for now—is a clear "not quite."

The film opens with promise. A sweeping song, "Usiru Usiralli...," plays over snowy backdrops that seem to be modeled on Manali. The visuals are rich and stylized, almost like frames from a digital picture book. The characters' features are sharp, their hair neat, and the backgrounds so clean they feel more like wallpaper than real places.

Yet, as beautiful as it looks, the emotional connection never quite takes hold. You see beauty, but you don't feel anything.