‘OK Computer’s’ Pooja Shetty and Neil Pagedar on Creating Home-Grown Indian Sci-Fi
Ann-Marie Corvin Making its European debut in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s new talent category Bright Future is “OK Computer,” a six-part Hindi sci-fi comedy set 10 years in the future.Featuring an AI-driven “New India” of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways, the Disney Plus Hotstar series stars Vijay Varma (“A Suitable Boy”), Radhika Apte (“Sacred Games”) and Jackie Shroff (“Criminal Justice”), and follows the capers of a hard-boiled detective (Varma) who is called out of retirement when a self-driving car gets hacked, killing a random pedestrian.The series was produced through Mumbai-based Memesys Culture Lab and created by two of the company’s Goa-based stakeholders: first-time directors Pooja Shetty, a former