The message is ubiquitous: A.I. is here, and it’s probably going to take your job. Pranav Bhasin’s comic mockumentary—which was executive-produced by the actors Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Andrew Scott, and which won the Audience Award for Short Narrative at this year’s SXSW festival—flips the script with its vision of tech backlash. The film, set in an Indian town, follows the exploits of three retirees named Bagchi, Pimple, and Ganguli, who are fighting back and taking the jobs of machines. Bagchi, decked out in silver body paint, has declared himself a dish antenna; his friends are “working” as a vehicle’s reverse camera and a microwave. “This is a revolt,” Bagchi says, “a war cry.”
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