Nearly 26 years after he left Khana Khazana, filmmaker Hansal Mehta is returning with another cooking show, Khana Dil Se. The upcoming cooking show has garnered interest for its star ingredient — Artificial Intelligence (AI). Talking to mid-day, ahead of Khana Dil Se’s release, producer Vijay Subramaniam, however, insisted that AI-led shows will still depend on human emotions. “Technology can help scale production. But it still takes a filmmaker like Hansal Mehta to know what emotional truth he is trying to capture in a story like Khana Dil Se,” he said.

The larger goal, he said, is to use AI to help creators attempt “bigger worlds and more ambitious storytelling without the traditional limitations of time and cost.”