Mumbai: In a significant development for India’s film industry, Abundantia Entertainment, under its Artificial Intelligence-powered storytelling division aiON, has announced a strategic partnership with global AI video technology leader invideo to launch an AI-driven film production studio. Backed by a corpus of ₹100 crores, the initiative marks the largest structured commitment to AI-powered filmmaking in India to date.
The partnership combines Abundantia’s established creative and filmmaking ecosystem with invideo’s advanced generative-video technology to reimagine how films are conceptualised, developed and produced. The development and production corpus will support a slate of five AI-driven films over the next three years.
The announcement was made at the India AI Film Festival (IAFF), hosted by invideo and sponsored by Nvidia, at the historic Qutb Minar in New Delhi, on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The two companies have already begun collaborating with filmmakers, writers and specialised visual-tech artists and engineers to build the upcoming slate.
Vikram Malhotra, Founder & CEO, Abundantia Entertainment, said, “AI in film-making is now real! Every major leap in cinema — from sound to colour to digital — has expanded storytelling possibility. AI represents the next inflection point. With Abundantia aiON, we are building a future where AI strengthens and amplifies the filmmaker’s voice, not substitutes it. Our partnership with invideo allows us to design a future-facing creative studio that blends human imagination, authorship and intelligence to create stories that are both emotionally resonant and technologically path-breaking. I am very excited at the unique capabilities and scale that Sanket and the brilliant team at invideo possess and look forward to taking the first step towards the future of film-making.”
Sanket Shah, Founder & CEO, invideo, added, “At invideo our mission has always been to democratize high-quality video creation through AI. Partnering with a top-notch studio like Abundantia Entertainment enables us to extend this capability into the world of high-quality filmmaking by building tools and workflows that allow creators to move from idea to cinematic expression faster and more freely than ever before. This is about accelerating and enhancing creativity, not just automating it.”
Backed by global investors Tiger Global and Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital India), invideo brings deep expertise in generative video creation, enabling users to transform ideas into fully realised visual narratives using AI-powered workflows. The company recently announced a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to build enterprise-grade AI-powered filmmaking tools tailored for studios, broadcasters, advertising agencies and large production houses.
The collaboration further strengthens Abundantia’s focus on future-facing storytelling through aiON, its dedicated AI division integrating emerging technologies into cinematic workflows. The studio is currently partnering in developing India’s first AI-generated Hindi feature film, Chiranjeevi Hanuman, slated for release in 2026, and has also announced its next AI-powered feature film, Jai Santoshi Mata, among several projects in the aiON pipeline.
With this ₹100 crore commitment, Abundantia Entertainment and invideo aim to position India at the forefront of AI-enabled cinematic innovation, blending technology and human creativity to craft the next generation of storytelling experiences.
