Sid Anand Kumar

An AI film for Doubters. Made with Flick.

Who else is excited for this?!

I was looking forward to going to the cinema to watch The Odyssey. It would have been the first time going in a decade. I love epic films. But I’m not going now for this film is going to be woke crap. Helen Of Troy is now black. And Achilles is a trans man. I hate Hollywood.

You want me to believe this malnourished freak is supposed to be Achilles.... Achilles the Greek and Roman embodiment of masculine human perfection...? FUCK OFF Christopher Nolan, Fuck right off.

If you paid me to ruin a movie, I still couldn’t have done it this masterfully

I remember rehearsing for this bit on the sidewalk outside of the Tonight Show with @billyjoel and his band. I asked him, “Should we just do The Lion Sleeps Tonight?” There were two other songs. He said, “Well let’s just try it now with my band.” And that turned into three doo-wop songs on an NYC street corner. And THAT turned into this bit. Happy birthday to the one and only.

Imagine sitting in a theatre in 1999 & seeing this for the first time.

As contagious as it is to watch Belushi, you just can't take your eyes off of Aykroyd. The sheer amount of talent on that small stage is staggering. The Blues Brothers performing 'Soul Man' live on SNL, in 1978. 48 years apart yet it is still incredibly impressive.

1 year ago I was trying to shoot a dialogue scene in a cafe with two actors. A simple scene like that took me weeks to organize, days to rehearse and shoot and would cost some money. Now I am lying on my couch with a laptop on my chest doing scenes like this. AI video generation is a gift from heaven from people like us who got f***ed and betrayed by Hollywood. This is only the beginning. Epic Naval Warfare with a dumb eagle flying through it 😄Made with @openart_ai OpenArt CPP

Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people. Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade. The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds. Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2. Tennis almost triples jogging. A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%. The question is why racket sports destroy everything else. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system. Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline. Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%. Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community. Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

In 2003, a German film crew followed a nomadic family in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The film, The Story of the Weeping Camel, was nominated for an Oscar. A mother camel had rejected her newborn after a brutal two-day labour. Without her milk, the calf would die. The family knew one option. They sent their two young sons on a journey across the desert to find a musician who could perform a ritual called Hoos, a chanting ceremony passed down for centuries specifically for this moment. The musician came. The ritual was performed. The mother camel wept real tears and turned to her calf for the first time. The film crew had gone to document a way of life. They had no idea they would capture that. UNESCO added the Hoos ritual to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2015, alongside flamenco, the Mediterranean diet, and the art of Neapolitan pizza making.

Watching Gary Oldman crack up at fart sounds dubbed into his own scenes and laughing until he’s in tears might just be the purest joy you’ll see all day.

What is the single funniest line Wodehouse ever wrote? No wrong answers, only joy.

The film industry’s strong reaction against Seedance 2.0 regarding “copyright infringements” and also the threat to the very existence of the film industry is just a knee jerk reaction and once they get over that , they will stare at the much bigger picture A bunch of viral clips like Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt rooftop fight, Spider Man swinging through complex cities, Baahubali level war sequences made in minutes have exposed one naked truth that the entire multi thousand crore, years long in making etc are going to become ancient myths which future generations might not even believe they happened The real earthquake is not the copyright noise. The real earthquake is the realisation for all investors and makers regarding the drastic reduction in time and cost of making films. Right now, a big Bollywood or Hollywood “tentpole” will have gigantic sets or some thousands of VFX shots, 1 to 2 years of shooting, and then forever post production overall costing 300 to 1500 crores and then , if the likes of Seedance 2.0 (and advanced versions of whatever will come in the next 3 to 6 months) can generate theatrical quality visuals from a few detailed prompts , won’t all the investors stop dead in their tracks ? Once the A I models reach consistent theatrical resolution + full length feature capability (which could be months, or a year away), the old way of making films will becomes pre historic . Why spend hundreds of crores and years in building a massive ancient kingdom set when a prompter can type” Epic war sequence, 5000 warriors clashing on a rain soaked mountain fortress at golden hour, camera sweeping like in Bahubali , ultra realistic, cinematic lighting, Dolby Atmos sound design” etc and Bingo ! It’s ready The films and productions that will be thrown into total chaos right now will be any big VFX heavy films currently in production or pre production (think upcoming Avatar sequels, Marvel/DCU phases, various Indian biggies etc.). Their entire pipeline will become obsolete overnight This is exactly like the Industrial Revolution where physical muscle became irrelevant ..Works like pulling, pushing, lifting etc have been taken over by the machine . Now the AI video generators have done the same to the “creative class”. All those highly paid, union protected “creative minds” with their years of craft, their “vision”, their “experience” are about to become irrelevant The only people who will remain essential are the prompters and they are not even a part of the film industry. A 18 year old student, Reddit idle chatters, gaming kids, YouTubers, or random bored guys sitting in their bedrooms or bathrooms , even in some tier 2 town will be the ones who will be making the next mega block busters .This is not “the end of cinema”. This is the end of cinema as an elitist, gate kept, insanely expensive industry. This is the birth of true democratization. A 19 year old with talent and killer prompting skills who doesn’t have money to even come to Mumbai to try for access to the film industry , can now make a film that looks better than 90% of the multi crore costing films released in the last decade with his pocket change. The industry screamed when cameras went digital. They screamed when editing went non linear. They screamed when VFX replaced practical effects. They will scream now. But screaming won’t stop any in coming technology . The likes of SEE DANCE 2.0 just handed a god like power to anyone with imagination Great prompters will be the new movie moguls . Welcome to the Industrial Revolution of cinema, where instead of labour becoming irrelevant creators will become irrelevant The challenge of cinema is no longer about how to make , but it’s about what to make ? That’s because from among the thousands of the films that will be made , only the best will survive and that’s the only truth which will remain The water is just drawing in now .. and it’s just a matter of time before the Tsunami hits

Luckily, yesterday, before CapCut shut down Seedance 2.0, I was able to create this 15-second continuous single-shot action sequence with a hard noir aesthetic. And what can I say… This is the most mind-blowing action sequence I’ve ever seen generated with AI 🤯 It doesn’t fall short of Sin City at all. I’m sure Frank Miller would love it. Big words.

It’s so over.

It is extremely hard to tell this is AI, and we are not even halfway through 2026. This is going to be a crazy year.

@umesh_ai Your prompt is nicer and more detailed than the render

Prompt : A realistic cinematic scene opens high in the Swiss Alps at midnight. A dense web of rail lines glows under pale blue moonlight reflecting off endless snowfields. A high-speed express train tears through a mountain junction, sparks flying from the tracks against walls of packed ice. The camera drops from above and latches onto the frost-covered roof of the train, racing forward along the length of the carriages, freezing wind tearing at the lens, snow crystals streaking past like tiny stars. It reaches a ventilation grate and punches downward through the metal seamlessly into a first-class cabin warm with amber light. Inside, quiet warmth. A couple sits shoulder to shoulder, each wearing one earbud from the same pair of wired headphones. Neither speaks. She stares out the frosted window. He stares at her reflection in it. A faint smile sits on his face that he doesn't know is there. The white cord hangs between them in a gentle arc, swaying with the train's rhythm like a lifeline neither wants to unplug. The camera pushes forward past their tangled silhouette, along the fogged window where her fingertip has traced a small lopsided heart in the condensation, past the swaying wine bottle, through the cabin wall, through the next cabin where passengers sleep bundled in coats and scarves, breath barely visible in the cooler air, and continues through the far exterior wall — emerging outside in one unbroken motion, the full train now revealed stretching behind the camera, every window a different shade of warmth and darkness against the blue-black alpine night. The camera rises and pulls far back to reveal the train crossing a moonlit viaduct, a frozen glacial valley shimmering below, jagged peaks dusted in ice glowing on the horizon like ancient teeth of the earth. End on a wide aerial shot, the train now a ribbon of golden light threading between glacier and stone. Silence except for the distant rhythmic clatter of wheels on rail joints, fading like a heartbeat slowing to sleep.

Ennio Morricone and “Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission, one of the most magical musical moments in cinema history.