Cheap AI visuals undermine Vijay’s Rs 500 crore farewell film Jana Nayagan

There is a scene where Bobby Deol in Jana Nayagan commands an army in a fictional African civil war. Drones fill the sky above a burning city. Robots engage human soldiers on a dusty battlefield. Explosions light up the frame every few seconds. And none of it looks real. That’s exactly where everything went wrong with Jana Nayagan.Hear me out: when I say it doesn’t look real, it is not in the way that big-budget action films sometimes stretch believability for the sake of spectacle. It looks fake in the way that a student project looks fake, where the gap between what the filmmakers intended and what ended up on screen is so wide that you stop watching the story and start wondering what went wrong in the production pipeline. That scene sets the norm for the film’s entire second half, where