IIT Bombay: Eros Investments partners IIT Bombay to develop AI-based script generating tool Kurosawa
Named after Akira Kurosawa, the noted Japanese film director, Kurosawa is envisaged as an attempt to
the entertainment industry with cutting-edge technology to generate a full-length feature film script. The software will assist film makers in developing the plot and the script of movies. IIT Bombay will also create a whitepaper on Kurosawa for academic and research purposes.
“This association between Eros Investments and IIT Bombay is an excellent example of the amalgamation of the left and right brain,” said Swaneet Singh, Director, Eros Investments. “Kurosawa is a pioneering and cutting-edge technology that will revolutionise the entertainment sector. The tool will enable scriptwriters to focus on creativity and quality while doing the groundwork for them. This innovation marks a new milestone for Eros Investments that will be used as a case study in the future.”
The teams from IIT Bombay and Eros have been collaborating on Kurosawa for over a year.
“Kurosawa will be a huge opportunity to transform the art of storytelling with proficiency and improve efficiency for content creators. We welcome collaboration with Eros investments, led by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya from IIT Bombay, to provide automation to the process of scripting in the entertainment industry,” said Prof. Milind Atrey, dean of Research and Development at IIT Bombay. “As the outcome of the research, IIT Bombay will also be jointly launching a white paper on Kurosawa that will be used for academic and research purposes, further supporting the upcoming generation looking to make a mark in the industry.”
Kurosawa will help identify the right genre, output logline, and synopsis and deliver a potentially hit script that can be customised further as required.
In the current phase, Kurosawa can generate multiple engaging plots and scenes based on single input. For example, it can create genre-specific movie plots basis genre(s) and a short 2-3 sentence prompt. It can also create scenes in a standard screenplay format based on a brief description.
Automatic Movie Script Generation is a subfield of Natural Language Generation (NLG). The machine can learn plot and scene generation from the pre-existing data with minimum human intervention.
Kurosawa is based on the latest Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing technologies. It is led by Prof Bhattacharyya, known for his AI and ML expertise, and an internationally renowned research group. He is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT Bombay and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (2015) and Abdul Kalam National Fellow (2020). Prof. Bhattacharyya is supported in this project by the students from IIT Bombay who are a part of the curriculum.
