{"id":1017428,"date":"2026-06-10T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1017428\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:31:15","slug":"rajinikanths-kochadaiiyaan-ai-remaster-leads-eros-u-k-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1017428\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajinikanth’s ‘Kochadaiiyaan’ AI Remaster Leads Eros U.K. Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEros Innovation<\/a> has unveiled a \u00a3265 million ($355.2 million) commitment to the U.K., anchoring a 15-production slate that includes the AI remaster of superstar Rajinikanth<\/a>\u2018s \u201cKochadaiiyaan<\/a>,\u201d a continuation of the \u201cTanu Weds Manu<\/a>\u201d franchise and a new mythological cinematic universe.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company also announced the licensing of its $1.7 billion cultural dataset to a newly established U.K. operation. The announcements are being made at London Tech Week. <\/p>\n

\n\tCentral to the announcement is Eros\u2019s Large Cultural Model family \u2013 AI systems the company describes as trained specifically on Indian cinema rather than general-purpose data, drawing on approximately 1.5 trillion rights-cleared tokens from 11,000 films and 100,000 characters, and independently valued at $1.7 billion by OxValue.AI, in association with the University of Oxford. The company says the domain-specific training gives the models a depth of cultural, narrative and character understanding that general AI systems lack. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe announcement adds to a series of AI-driven projects from Eros, which has been in the news for its use of AI to reimagine titles in its catalogue, including an alternate-ending re-release of \u201cRaanjhanaa\u201d<\/a> \u2014 titled \u201cAmbikapathy\u201d in its Tamil-language version.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder its Eros Remastered banner, the company will reimagine \u201cKochadaiiyaan\u201d \u2014 the first Indian motion capture film, originally produced by Eros and starring Rajinikanth \u2013 using its AI models, with Soundarya Rajinikanth returning to direct.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Eros Brahmand trailer received its world premiere at the event, offering a first look at the company\u2019s mythological cinematic universe, a franchise built on ancient Indian mythology at global scale. The Brahmand slate includes nine productions: \u201cNandi \u2013 War of Kailasa,\u201d \u201cDwaarka: Gateway to the Universe,\u201d \u201cVimaan Wars,\u201d \u201cMahabharat 5000 A.D.,\u201d \u201cYakshinis,\u201d \u201cBrahmarakshak,\u201d \u201cGaruda,\u201d \u201cKumbhayanna,\u201d and \u201cMansa Devi.\u201d Each is being developed through a dedicated U.K. film production company.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder its Eros Universe banner, the company is continuing six Indian film worlds as full franchise ecosystems spanning film, microdrama, animation and character-led content. The slate includes \u201cTanu Weds Manu \u2013 The Next Chapter,\u201d \u201cPhobia,\u201d \u201cEnglish Vinglish,\u201d \u201cDesi Boyz,\u201d \u201cRangeela\u201d and \u201cTere Naam.\u201d \u201cTanu Weds Manu \u2013 The Next Chapter\u201d will be directed by Mitakshara Kumar (\u201cHeeramandi,\u201d \u201cThe Empire\u201d) and co-produced with Rudrak Soma Jyoti Limited, with a new cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo productions are confirmed to shoot in Britain in 2026: \u201cNandi \u2013 War of Kailasa\u201d and \u201cTanu Weds Manu \u2013 The Next Chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe $355.2 million commitment covers AI music studios in London, dedicated microdrama production, London-based animation, and U.K.-based model training and R&D with British academic partnerships in development. The LCM family was first unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi in February this year. The voice layer, Eros LCVM, launched June 5, released by S. Krishnan, Secretary of India\u2019s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), which recognizes the initiative as a sovereign AI program. The research anchor is at Indian Institute of Technology Madras under Professor V. Kamakoti.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat we are bringing to Britain is not an office, and it is not an investment,\u201d said Swaneet Singh, co-president of Eros Innovation. \u201cIt is a sovereign-grade cultural artificial intelligence capability \u2013 one of the world\u2019s largest rights-cleared cultural datasets, the AI Studio that will operate on it, and a long-term partnership with British data, British talent and British institutions to build what comes next together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRidhima Lulla, co-founder and co-president of Eros Innovation and CEO of Eros Brahmand Studios, said the company is building \u201ca new creative ecosystem powered by AI, rooted in culture, and designed to bring stories to audiences in entirely new ways,\u201d adding: \u201cWe are proud to be building it from London.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKanishka Narayan MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, called the commitment \u201cproof that we can aim higher, and go further, when we work together,\u201d describing it as a vote of confidence in Britain\u2019s creative and technology sectors.<\/p>\n

\n\tEros Innovation is incorporated in the Isle of Man with operations across India, the U.K., the U.S. and the U.A.E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eros Innovation has unveiled a \u00a3265 million ($355.2 million) commitment to the U.K., anchoring a 15-production slate that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1017429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,281561,281562,3943,110506,281563,16,15],"class_list":["post-1017428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-eros-innovation","tag-kochadaiiyaan","tag-movies","tag-rajinikanth","tag-tanu-weds-manu","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116725592002317629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}