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Watch the Trailer for Anand Gandhi’s OK Computer, Out March 26 on Hotstar
“OK Computer is an attempt to imagine a world of our near-future together, and laugh out loud while we are at it,” Gandhi said in a prepared statement. “The show asks one of the biggest questions of this century: if AI commits a crime, who should be culpable? It asks this question with madcap humour, zany characters, and a rollercoaster epic story. It’s been my privilege to offer unprecedented stories to Indian audiences. OK Computer, like my previous work, is a small step in a completely new direction. I hope it opens up the floodgates for science fiction entertainment in India.”
Here’s the official synopsis for OK Computer from Disney+ Hotstar:
The year is 2031. On a quiet, smoggy night in a quaint coastal town in North Goa, when a self-driving taxi crashes into a human pedestrian, killing him instantaneously, a vexing question presents itself to the authorities: who is to blame? Is it the CEO of the taxi company? Or the supervising programmer on the night shift? Or could it be the car itself? While the law scrambles to ascertain culpability, cyber cell agent Hari Kundu (Vijay Varma) discovers that this was no accident, it was a premeditated murder, only to be counter questioned by the feisty Laksmi (Radhika Apte) who leads a private organisation for the ethical treatment of robots PETER and firmly believes that AI is not capable of harming humans.
OK Computer focuses on the battle between ideologies for and against technology, and poses the larger question of ‘Has AI which was created by humans, and which humans came to rely on now stopped being a boon and has instead begun to be annoying, overpowering, or harmful?
OK Computer is out March 26 on Disney+ Hotstar VIP and Disney+ Hotstar Premium. It will be available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada.