Kolkata, Nov. 10 -- While technology continues to reshape cinematic practice, it cannot replicate the nuances of human creativity, acclaimed filmmaker and theatre personality Ashoke Vishwanathan said on Monday.

Addressing a seminar titled "AI: Future of Cinema?" at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), Vishwanathan remarked, "It is quite palpable that the way we view cinema, the way cinema is coming to us, is changing in every way: in the nature of the audiences, like their demands, and you're saying that the producers are influencing those who want and telling them what they want."Comparing modern film to a plot from Irving Wallace's "The Seven Minutes," he added, "You create the crime and then you solve the crime.""Even if...