Bollywood Director Ram Gopal Varma Exclusively Adopts AI for Film Music
Acclaimed Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma launches a new music venture that relies entirely on AI-generated tracks instead of human artists. He argues that artificial intelligence eliminates costly delays and predicts human musicians will eventually disappear from the industry.
Acclaimed Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma officially abandons human musicians in favor of artificial intelligence for all his future film projects. Through his new venture, RGV Den Music, Varma exclusively uses AI applications like Suno and Udio to create soundtracks, including the entire background score for his upcoming feature film "Saree." He urges artists to embrace the technology rather than resist it, emphasizing that a director's taste and clarity of thought remain the most important factors in the creative process.
Varma criticizes human composers and lyricists for frequent deadline misses and scheduling conflicts that impede production. By contrast, he highlights that AI music generation delivers results instantly and at zero cost. India leads the world in film production with up to 2,000 movies and 25,000 songs released annually, making these potential time and cost savings highly disruptive to a massive creative workforce.
The director's bold move sparks fresh debate in an industry already grappling with AI's rapid expansion, drawing stark contrast to filmmakers like Christopher Nolan who warn against overreliance on the technology. To protect his new compositions, Varma collaborates with startups Reclaim Protocol and Story Protocol to secure the intellectual property of his AI-generated tracks using cryptographic proofs. He anticipates that many other Indian filmmakers will soon adopt similar AI workflows as the technology continues to evolve.