IIT Bombay partners with Eros Investments to develop automatic AI-based scriptwriting tool 'Kurosawa'

IIT Bombay has partnered with Eros Investments to develop an automatic AI-based scriptwriting tool called 'Kurosawa'.

IIT Bombay has announced a strategic collaboration with Eros Investments, a leading global media, entertainment and technology portfolio of ventures, to design and develop Kurosawa, an AI-based tool for automatic scriptwriting.

Named after the celebrated Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, Kurosawa is a ground-breaking attempt to empower the entertainment industry with cutting-edge technology to generate a full-length feature film script.

The software will assist filmmakers in developing the plot and the script of movies. IIT Bombay will also create a whitepaper on Kurosawa for academic and research purposes.

The teams from IIT Bombay and Eros have been collaborating on Kurosawa for over a year. Kurosawa will help identify the right genre, output logline, and synopsis and deliver a potentially hit script that can be customized further as required.

In the current phase, Kurosawa can generate multiple engaging plots and scenes basis 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 basis 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.