Abundantia aiON, the AI arm of Indian studio Abundantia Entertainment, has named Beta Builder as the first film to come out of its tie-up with AI video company InVideo. The announcement was made on 23 October 2026. The film is adapted from Sukriti YJ's novel Beta Builder: Mumbai In The Metaverse.
“It is a deeply human story, and the fact that it is being brought to life through AI makes it even more exciting to us.”
Vikram Malhotra, founder and CEO of Abundantia Entertainment, on Beta Builder · bollywoodhungama.com ↗
The story follows Jai, a self-taught architect from Mumbai's Dharavi neighbourhood. He gets a chance to build his dreams inside a virtual-reality world, and has to take on the system, win the woman he loves and give his community a voice. No cast, director or release date has been given, so for now the film is a title, a source novel and a premise rather than a production with a schedule.
Abundantia describes the project as made under a "Human-First, AI-Empowered" approach: a human author stays at the centre while AI is used at several stages of production. The wider aiON slate is expected to mix fully AI-generated features with hybrids of live action and AI, and its titles are due to start arriving from the first quarter of 2027. Founder Vikram Malhotra called the film exactly what aiON was set up to make, a human story realised with AI tools, and the company says authorship stays with people while the technology runs through the production chain.
Vikram Malhotra of Abundantia and Sanket Shah of InVideo at the February 2026 announcement of their partnership
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The partnership itself dates from February 2026, when it was unveiled around the India AI Impact Summit and the India AI Film Festival in New Delhi. Abundantia and InVideo committed Rs 100 crore, roughly US$11 million, to AI-driven films over three years. Trade coverage at the time put that at five films, while the announcement of Beta Builder refers to a three-film slate, so the size of the plan is reported two ways. InVideo's chief executive Sanket Shah framed the deal in February as an extension of his company's aim to make high-quality video creation available to far more people through AI.
About Abundantia Entertainment
Abundantia Entertainment is an Indian film production company, the banner under which producer Vikram Malhotra makes Hindi films, among them Neeyat, released in July 2023 and made with Amazon Studios.
It launched aiON in 2025 as its division for AI-powered stories. On 19 February 2026, timed to the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, it and InVideo announced a studio for AI-driven films, backed by about ₹1 billion (roughly US$11 million), which Abundantia called the largest structured commitment to the field in India so far. The plan then was five films over three years. By then aiON was developing Chiranjeevi Hanuman: The Eternal, billed as India's first AI-generated Hindi feature.
aiON was already developing two other titles, Chiranjeevi Hanuman: The Eternal and Jai Santoshi Mata: Sukh Sampatti Daata. Abundantia's earlier credits include Baby, Airlift, Shakuntala Devi and Sherni. In February Malhotra said AI should strengthen a filmmaker's voice instead of replacing it.