panthal.ai studiosSolo-operatedEst. 2026
One production pipeline. Three channels.
Every story. One roof.
A video studio with no crew. Concept ads for real brands, serialised drama and animated comedy. I write, generate, voice, cut and publish all of it.
A panthal is a temporary shed. You put it up for the occasion and take it down after. Different gatherings, many stories, one roof.
The .ai is what makes three channels possible by one person. I use it at every stage, and I direct it at every stage.
Spec advertisingOpen for commissions
AdChaatwala
Spec ads, served street-side.
Concept ads nobody asked for, made for brands that should have.
Concept films for real brands, none of them commissioned. A mock military briefing about going to the cinema. A watch ad about being bored at an airport.
All of it is disclosed as unofficial spec work. This is the channel open for paid commissions.
Original episodic fictionIn production
One Minute Dramas
Family. Betrayal. Revenge — one minute at a time.
Serialised vertical drama, built a minute at a time.
One channel, several series. The Fool They Threw Away runs to eighty episodes; the trailer and first three are free to watch.Unprompted and Derailed is ten science-fiction romances about two robots on a park bench.
An app for the flagship is in build, with per-episode unlocks.
Comedy channelEarly
Pappadamix
Sketch! Life! Animate! Adventure!
Spoofs, jokes, sketches, and things that should not be funny but are.
Movie spoofs and original sketches. For now, Malayalam movies. Written for people who grew up with these films. Not translated.
Still early, still sketchy and experimental.
The studioFive stages
The process
The difficulty is not the first one but the eightieth one. Keeping the same face within and across episodes, keeping the text legible, and choosing which shot is worth spending money on.
- 01
Script to shot list
- 02
Lock the visual identity
- 03
Generate the video
- 04
Voice, music, sound
- 05
Assemble and finish
The architectSrihari Medarametla
Eighteen years on systems that cannot fail. Regulated AI inside banks, to, national HPC-AI data centers. Now a studio, run with no crew.
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