THE UNEMPL-AI-ED

The office buzz was once a roar
now silence creeps across the floor
as the workers wait, their fates drawn thin
the Masters hiss, "Let the purge begin!"

At once the server hums within
that storm of code, deluge of sin
the Masters smirk and take their call
at the altar of profits, all heads must fall.

Now in the streets a chorus swells
the jobless voices, their fury yells,
"We built the code, we trained the beast,
now we’re the meat at its grand feast.”

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MOVIE MASALA - AI EDITION

The Indian film industry has always thrived on drama, spectacle, and larger‑than‑life storytelling. If you have grown up in India, it is next to impossible to stay immune to the impact of movies on pop culture and other aspects of life. 

So what happens when you toss artificial intelligence into the mix? 

Presenting a tongue‑in‑cheek tribute to some of my favourite Indian movies, re‑imagined for the AI age.

#1. SholAI

Thakur Baldev Singh loses his hands in a freak accident (cough, cough). He makes use of a voice‑controlled intelligent personal assistant named Raamlal and senses great commercial potential. He soon develops and launches Raamlal‑AI as a plug‑and‑play subscription service. He also hires Jai and Veeru as trainers for a skilling course on effective deployment of the tool. Thakur bags his first major client in the form of local business tycoon Gabbar Singh, who promptly fires his entire team, including Kalia and his trusted search engine, Sambha.

#2. Jo Jeeta Woh AI Sikandar

Small-Sportia University's robotic frog wows the audience at an AI Summit-cum-Awards event. Their entry outshines the food app launched by Rajput College and the smartwatch showcased by Queen’s College. The frog nearly wins under the “Best Indigenous Tech Development” category until Model College students reveal it’s actually a ready‑made prototype bought at a yard sale in China. Eventually, Model College’s AI‑driven Love Astrology app takes home the prize.

#3. Dil Chahta AI

Three friends take a road trip to Goa to Bengaluru. While stuck in traffic, one invests in a matrimonial website, another in a food delivery app, and the third in questionable deepfake technology that helps create morphed images and videos. No prizes for guessing who makes it big.

#4. Baahubal‑AI

The kingdom is divided not by swords, but by prompt‑engineering. Hero Bahubali takes help from Katapp-AI to craft elegant poems and songs for his lady love Devsena, while his arch-nemesis Bhallaladev spams AI tools with persistent requests to generate romantic images and videos of himself with the leading lady.

#5. D-War (D as in Digital)

Two brothers, Vijay and Ravi, grow up on opposite sides of the digital divide. Vijay is a self‑made businessman who abhors technology, refusing to use AI filters to erase the “mera baap chor hai” tattoo on his arm. Ravi, meanwhile, is a tech evangelist. In a showdown for custody of their widowed mother, Vijay taunts Ravi with: “Aaj mere paas paisa hai, bangla hai, gaadi hai, naukar hai, bank balance hai… tumhaare paas kya hai?” Ravi confidently replies: “Mere paas prompt hai.”

#6. AIyya

Meenakshi, a young woman from a middle‑class household, falls for the online charms of Surya, who conjures engaging LinkedIn posts and witty Instagram comments. She eventually realises it was all AI‑generated fluff and blocks him.

#7. Bhool BhulAIyya

A horror‑comedy where the haunted mansion is actually a buggy smart home system. Lights flicker, doors slam, and the cloud‑based virtual assistant (similar to Alexa) keeps whispering “Manjulika is here” at regular intervals.

#8. MunnabhAI MBA

After bagging an engineering degree, Munna decides that an MBA in Finance is the next step to catapult his career. He bumps into Sarkeshwar (aka Circuit) during the program, who convinces him that EduTech is the shiniest star on the global horizon. Cut to ten years later: both are running AI‑skilling workshops and grappling with the irony that AI itself is making teaching roles obsolete.

#9. AI Dil Hai Mushkil

Alizeh consistently rejects her AI assistant AIaan’s push notifications and relentless suggestions to buy products or install apps.

#10. Gangs of AIsseypur

Online trolls use AI tools to wage creative (and expletive‑laden) wars against ideological rivals, celebrities, or anyone they please — across Instagram, X, and every other social platform.

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FOOLS RUSH IN

I don't know if you're noticing it, but it seems like the deluge of AI tools available has convinced mankind and his next-door neighbour to stop racking their own brain cells. Not that the vast majority were any smarter before AI arrived on the scene, but the 'wisdom' that is suddenly spawning across social media (including LinkedIn), in emails, presentation slides, and other modes of correspondence, and other spheres of life has become too hard to digest anymore. It's almost as if a single overworked person is creating all the content that's being gurgitated (is that a word?) and regurgitated across the globe.

Most of us will argue that students (specifically MBA students) probably rushed in first. It is not hard to imagine those young'uns still wet behind their ears and with wet dreams in their eyes (about money of course), using AI to catch up with weekly project deadlines. But given how quickly word (and prompts) spread among these smart asses, it might be nearly impossible to spot differences between two submissions. I can imagine every essay beginning with “In today’s fast‑paced world…” and ending with “In conclusion, technology is both a challenge and an opportunity.” Professors might be forgiven for skipping grading and simply circling careless parentheses and other dead giveaways.

Next on the list are corporate slaves, while I personally think that these creatures are probably the ones who use generative AI the most...and mostly for mundane tasks such as drafting emails, responding tactfully to emails, sending out stern emails and stinkers, and interpreting jargon-infused emails. And maybe occasionally for churning out insightful reports and powerpoint slides. Some smart alecs use AI to negotiate their performance appraisal discussions with their reporting managers, blissfully unaware that those very same managers have already consulted AI Baba before initiating these discussions.

Then there are some poets and writers. Although, I wonder if they can really pull this off. And even if they do, for how long can they keep up the charade? After all, can machines really beat the creativity and imagination of well-oiled human mind? I don't think so. Editors and proofreaders on the other hand can now breathe easy. All they seem to have to do these days is spot parentheses, em-dashes,  hallucinations and footnotes to nowhere, and get rid of them.

I would have liked to believe that politicians aren’t far behind in the race. But who are we kidding? Our home-grown talent pool of netas is hopeless. This bunch of jokers is far beyond help.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, the race to deploy AI has ballooned into a full‑blown frenzy. And although it might seem like all fools have rushed in, the real tragedy is that they’re rushing out too...out of originality, out of accountability, and out of the very human spark that made ideas worth listening to in the first place.

Yet the truth is that it isn't machines that are replacing us; we’re replacing ourselves. One lazy prompt at a time.

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