00:00Hello everybody, good morning. Yes ma'am. Today it's like I had a bunch of
00:07nostalgic feelings. About 20 years ago, I think 2005-2006 you put Ted Sarandos
00:14gharu jephe niengur jipta hunde ho and ne. Technology waad te cinema lize ga uti, visual effects
00:19jayetse. Dilraazgaru was just become a very successful producer at that point.
00:25And today people like Jeff Shapiro coming to Hyderabad, speaking about this place as the
00:31next future hub to creativity. And Indha Karnattu, sir, I think the AVGC sector lo, if there
00:39are going to be two million jobs, one million can come out of Telangana and that we're very
00:43sure. And for this, I think I have to first thank the audiences who kept pushing the filmmakers,
00:50pushing boundaries constantly for wanting bigger and newer cinema. The filmmakers out
00:56of Hyderabad, the producers out of Hyderabad, okay, industry ki limit unte a limit in daati
01:03constantly, they've kept fighting and put the bar so high. So all the films that you spoke
01:07about, whether it's Kalki, Bahubali, Triple R, all of them happened out of this place. And
01:12with majority artists that have worked and built in Hyderabad itself. So I think with all this
01:20push and the fact that Highline here is coming with Netflix that has supported us in a huge,
01:26huge phenomenal way, I'd like to welcome all of y'all. I'd like to say that it's a great
01:32future for every single one who wants to be an artist, who wants to work in the movies,
01:37or who wants to work in storytelling. So thank you to everybody in the executive sector of
01:41the government. Thank you to the heads of the state. And we'll make this a beautiful,
01:45entertaining city. Wonderful, wonderful. We request you to kindly stay back.
01:52So Vishayu, we all know Rana and EFX in the storytelling. So when you first heard, make
02:03what's next, what was your initial reaction? Well, I think the make what's next can happen
02:10only in a city like Hyderabad. And I think I'll learn you all chose the right place to come,
02:14Netflix. You already know how awesome Hyderabad is. And so yeah, so I was just excited to be a boy
02:20from
02:21this city. Wonderful.
02:23Nijanga Nairu, Hyderabad nichi avada maandar ki koda intoh santoshan nisthundi. Andhukande
02:28global platform lo mi guri nchi matlad na padu. Every time we see you, meet you, we feel extremely
02:32on it. So Rana, cinema today is evolving rapidly, visually and technologically koda. So from your
02:39perspective as an actor and producer, what feels different about filmmaking today?
02:44Well, I think first there's no greater time to be a storyteller than today.
02:48Yes. I think technology has constantly evolved and created this democratic way of telling stories.
02:55They could make films. Today with this technology, I think every single one who has a expression
03:03of art, expression of story, expression of culture can come out and tell an amazing story. And I think
03:09the audience out there is waiting for anything awesome. This is the best time.
03:22Rana you've worked on some of the largest productions in Indian cinema and how was the role of visual effects
03:28evolved over the years?
03:31Well, I was hoping it would happen in 2006, but then it happened in 2016 when Bahubali
03:39actually came to form and we were pushing that visual effects boundary.
03:43So I think I was somewhere like a time capsule, I've been seeing this journey of visual effects
03:47evolve.
03:48I've been seeing this AI pipeline evolve and I think this is the best time to be able
03:54to tell a story because what you can imagine will come immediately on that screen very,
03:59very quickly this time.
04:00Yeah.
04:00Wonderful.
04:01And as an actor, what is it like performing in environments that are partly or entirely
04:06created digitally?
04:07Well, that's I think that pushes an actor's boundary of imagination to the maximum and
04:12in theater class, when you're training for theater, they do things like mime.
04:19They do things like imagination of characters that are not there.
04:23I think all of that drama skill kind of comes back now more than ever in the country.
04:28today we are performing in a place without the people.
04:30We are performing in a place without really looking and feeling things.
04:34But what tech does today is it gives you a visual understanding.
04:44The pre-production and the pre-viz will give you that understanding.
04:48So I think it's a new form that we are evolving to.
04:51It will become something else.
04:53So I think we're all waiting for that and are excited every single day about this disruption
04:59that's going to happen.
05:23Wonderful.
05:23to all the aspects of filmmaking.
05:25How exciting is it for you personally, that I-Line Studios has set up their studios here
05:30in Hyderabad.
05:31Well, I just have to say you picked the right city.
05:33There is no other better city than this to have picked up.
05:36what I can say is
05:38cinema and arts are in the DNA
05:40of everybody who's grown up in this city
05:42at a time
05:44where nobody knew what this skill was
05:46there were people self-learning this
05:49using some
05:50kind of pirated software, figuring out
05:52some kind of tech and that's how the early
05:54visual effects supervisors here were born
05:56and I think today having something
05:58like this is a huge boost to the city
06:00and for everyone who wanted to be creative
06:02Wonderful, thank you Rana for sharing
06:04your thoughts. Thank you so much
06:05And now I would like to invite
06:10Monica Shergil
06:12Vice President Content, Netflix
06:14India on stage to felicitate
06:16Rana Dagobati please
06:25And you thoroughly
06:26deserve it Rana
06:27Huge round of applause ladies and gentlemen
06:29for Rana Dagobati
06:42Thank you
06:43Thank you
06:45Thank you so much Rana
06:55Please
06:56Well let me place the good
06:57Thank you
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