This Youtuber has done a phenomenal job here and we must applaud and make it viral.
If a YouTuber can do it with all AI and other resources available to him, we rightly expected Namit Malhotra's Ramayana to be way more epic that it current is (as seen in trailers), on a budget of $500 Million
Pranam 🙏🏻
Since Ramayana is going International, what do all think of this Hanuman Chalisa (English Version) for English speaking followers of Bhagwan Shri Ram and Hanuman Ji, especially the second and further generation NRIs.
This is something I wanted to share that I published some 6 months back.
It took almost a year, along with my day job, wherein I researched and respectfully tried translating each verse into a poetic English flow. My goal wasn't to replace the original, but to create a "New Avatar" for the same Soul, especially meant to be read/ listened together with original such that we understand what Goswami Tulsidas ji is trying to convey. Obviously, AI tools were used in it but I tried my best preserving the "soul" of Hanuman Chalisa.
Please forgive unintentional mistakes in translation.
Hope to get some constructive feedback from this community 😊
Full article I wrote on r/hinduism 6 months back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hinduism/s/2EBgf2zYwP
Jai Shri Ram 🙏🏻
Jai Hanuman 🙏🏻
Lemme share my personal experience.
Most people picture AI music like you just type a prompt, press Generate, and a song appears, which actually is true but not in entirety coz if that were the extent of it, I wouldn’t have spent much of a year creating my first concept album.
For me, AI never felt like the composer but felt more like another instrument/ tool. Actually, more accurately, like working with an incredibly fast orchestra that still needed a conductor.
See, the process of my future "concept album" began long before any AI got involved.
- It started with a question: “What does it actually mean to come of age?”
At first, the answer seemed obvious, like teenage years, graduation, growing up, taxes 😉, etc but the more I thought about it, the more that idea felt incomplete. I realized we don’t come of age just once. We do it again every time life pushes us to become someone new or we spent too much time being that someone.
The first job, the first heartbreak, leaving home, losing certainty, taxes, wars, finding purpose, etc.
Suddenly, the album title changed in my mind.
Not 'Coming of Age' but 'Coming of Age…'.
The ellipsis added to the meaning. The story wasn’t finished and so neither are we. Only then did I start mapping songs.
Not writing, just thinking.
What questions needed asking?
What emotional journey did I want someone to experience?
So, I grouped ideas into fifteen or sixteen chapters. Then I realized the order was going wrong coz it didn't converge anywhere.
So I rebuilt it... Several times.
Entire songs disappeared.
New ones emerged.
Some tracks merged.
Others transformed into completely different songs.
Even the final sequence hide a narrative. The transition from Fake Natty Vibes to Signal in the Noise to My Heart Knows… wasn’t accidental.
It represents moving from illusion to discernment to something deeper. Only after that structure existed did AI become part of the process.
Even then, it wasn’t: “Write me a song.” It was more like directing a film. The lyrics changed dozens of times. Prompts were rewritten endlessly.
Artwork was created, rejected, and recreated.
Songs had to stay within the emotional boundaries of the album.
If something sounded impressive but didn’t fit the story, it was discarded.
So, you see the hardest part wasn’t generating ideas. It was saying “no” to hundreds of them.
Ironically, AI made editing more important, not less. The technology could generate options but it couldn’t decide what deserved to exist.
That was still my job.
So, I don’t really see AI as replacing creativity.
For me, it improved the part of creativity that I value most: making decisions.
I’m now really curious how other musicians, writers, designers, or filmmakers view this, especially those who are coming from these backgrounds.
Has AI changed what creativity means, or has it simply changed the tools we use to express it?
P.S. In case any one of would be interested in listening to final output, here is the 🟢 Spotify album: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Se2JYhjxjf8hRXmbCb88I and ▶️ YouTube Music album: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nKv-CKMqv1UsTKvdzGtToO96TJmZBIv3w