New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Creators and production houses are actively bringing out AI-generated fiction content across long and short formats, including web shows and micro-dramas, even as the online video space remains cluttered with multiple entertainment options. Many of these new titles are centred on mythology to tap collective heritage and engage Gen Z audiences with what they may have heard of within families and communities.

While Collective Artists Network, formerly known as KWAN, a talent management and media company, has launched a 600-episode microdrama version of the Mahabharata, filmmaker Ram Madhvani has announced a mythological virtual reality universe with the first short film being an AI adaptation of the Bhagavad Gita. The...