India’s Abundantia Entertainment and AI video technology company InVideo have unveiled a strategic partnership to launch an AI-driven film production studio, backed by an investment of INR100 crores ($11 million) — what the companies are calling the largest structured commitment to AI-driven filmmaking in India to date.
The deal was revealed at the India AI Film Festival, held at New Delhi’s Qutb Minar on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The festival is hosted by InVideo and sponsored by Nvidia.
Under the partnership, the two companies will develop and produce a slate of five AI-driven films over the next three years, using the joint corpus to fund development and production. The collaboration will operate through Abundantia’s artificial intelligence-focused division, aiON, which will harness InVideo’s generative video technology to rethink how films are conceptualized, developed and produced.
“AI in film-making is now real,” said Vikram Malhotra, founder and CEO of Abundantia Entertainment. “Every major leap in cinema – from sound to color to digital – has expanded storytelling possibility. AI represents the next inflection point. With Abundantia aiON, we are building a future where AI strengthens and amplifies the filmmaker’s voice, not substitutes it. Our partnership with InVideo allows us to design a future-facing creative studio that blends human imagination, authorship and intelligence to create stories that are both emotionally resonant and technologically path-breaking.”
Sanket Shah, Founder and CEO of InVideo, framed the deal as an extension of the company’s democratization mission. “Partnering with a top-notch studio like Abundantia Entertainment enables us to extend this capability into the world of high-quality filmmaking by building tools and workflows that allow creators to move from idea to cinematic expression faster and more freely than ever before. This is about accelerating and enhancing creativity, not just automating it.”
InVideo, which counts Tiger Global and Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital India) among its backers, claims a user base of over 50 million across 190-plus countries and has raised more than $50 million in venture funding. The company recently revealed a collaboration with Google Cloud to develop AI-powered filmmaking tools, including enterprise-grade production pipelines aimed at studios, broadcasters, ad agencies and large production houses.
On the Abundantia side, the partnership builds on the studio’s aiON division, which is already in development on two AI-driven features: “Chiranjeevi Hanuman,” produced in partnership with Collective Artists Network and set for a 2026 release, and “Jai Santoshi Mata: Sukh Sampatti Daata.”
Founded in 2013 by Malhotra, a former COO of Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Abundantia has built a track record spanning theatrical and streaming fare, including “Baby,” “Airlift,” “Toilet – Ek Prem Katha,” “Shakuntala Devi,” “Sherni,” “Jalsa,” “Ram Setu” and “Sukhee,” as well as the Amazon original series “Breathe” and its successors. The studio’s most recent release is “Daldal,” a Prime Video crime drama series starring Bhumi Pednekar.
The alliance is currently in the process of assembling its slate in collaboration with filmmakers, writers and visual-tech artists and engineers.
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