Shakun Batra, writer-director of the emotionally charged Kapoor & Sons and Gehraiyaan, is not the kind of filmmaker you’d expect to deliver riveting car chases. “People see me as an emotional, personal-dynamics filmmaker, so nobody would give me the money to do one [an action sequence],” he says, seated in Dharma Entertainment’s office. But after experimenting with artificial intelligence [AI] tools like ChatGPT, Sora and Google Veo, Batra has done exactly that, conjured his first high-octane short, The Getaway Car, and set it in Montreal. “Had I done it the traditional way, it would have required a 50-member crew, cars and permission from local government to block streets, a stunt team, security, flying in actors to Montreal and putting them up in hotels,” he says. Instead, a bit of deft…
