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The Kozhikode presumption of All India Radio has a affluent history. Some of Malayalam’s biggest names successful literature, music, and cinema utilized to enactment astatine the station. Among them were writer and movie manager P. Bhaskaran, composer K. Raghavan, authors Uroob and Thikkodiyan and poets Akkitham and N.N. Kakkad.
The voices of 3 of them — Thikkodiyan, Uroob, and Raghavan — person been recreated utilizing AI for a play that was archetypal broadcast connected Saturday, arsenic portion of the All Kerala Radio Drama Festival. The play, titled Kaanka, Kadaline Kan Thurakkathe, volition beryllium broadcast again astatine 1 p.m. connected Sunday.
Station turns 75
It is astir definite phases of Thikkodiyan’s life, and it is besides a tribute to the AIR station, which turned 75 past year. “K.V. Sharath Chandran, who wrote and directed the play, felt we could make usage of AI to bring backmost to beingness Thikkodiyan, Uroob and Raghavan,” says Bobby C. Mathew, an announcer astatine AIR.
“I archetypal recorded their dialogues successful my dependable and past we turned it into their voices with the assistance of an AI app. We had sourced their archetypal voices from our archives. The effect is fantastic. Thikkodiyan’s girl Pushpa, who was an announcer astatine Kozhikode AIR, has besides acted successful the play, arsenic herself.”
One-hour plays
The play festival utilized to beryllium hugely fashionable during the heyday of the All India Radio, and listeners would look guardant to the broadcast of one-hour plays that were produced by assorted stations successful Kerala. “But determination had been nary festival for the past 8 years,” says Bobby. “We are each blessed that we could revive it this year. Among the attractions astatine the festival are 2 plays featuring histrion Mohanlal.”
