Mandar Natekar

Co-Founder & CEO NeuralGarage- | GenAI |Former M&E executive Viacom18 Times Sony Turner Reliance |Rubik’s Cube Solver | Bibliophile | Hands on Dad

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

Last week we launched DRAMA — The World’s First AI Expression Editing Model. Imagine Auto Tune but for expressions !

DRAMA is a true AI Emotion Editor that lets you edit and control expressions in your videos without losing resolution.

This is our second model after VisualDub and is our step forward to create smart GenAI tech for the entertainment industry in production and post production.

Try DRAMA: https://t.co/fIUzPbOTP0

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

And surprised that it is rated Adult !! My son is 15, a huge Spielberg fan and is heartbroken. Today kids have access to every single piece of content on streaming platforms where there is no censorship. What is the point of gatekeeping this if the child goes to watch it with his parent? They will anyway eventually watch when it comes on streaming where there is zero censorship !

[Kiran Kumar @kiranwtr]

@mandar2404 Huge moment for Indian tech — VisualDub alone changes the game for indie filmmakers here. 🇮🇳

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

@prasadvedpathak You got your two minutes of fame. Congratulations on picking up a non issue and creating fault lines where there were none. Enjoy your victory on defeating a peace loving and gentle class of people who let this pass.

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

On my wrist today. This is the Zeppelin 100 Jahre Chronograph, a German engineered watch commemorating 100 years of the iconic Zeppelin airships. The watch face exhibits a distinctive retro aviation style with intricate dial markers. What makes this particular one special, is that this is powered by a Swiss movement and is qualified to carry the “Swiss Made” badge on the dial. This was because to celebrate 100 years, this particular model was launched as a premium offering. All Zeppelin watches otherwise carry a “German Made” badge. I have fitted it with an aftermarket leather strap.

#onmywristtoday #germanwatches #swisswatch #Zeppelin #wristwatches

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

On my wrist today. This is the Zeppelin 100 Jahre Chronograph, a German engineered watch commemorating 100 years of the iconic Zeppelin airships. The watch face exhibits a distinctive retro aviation style with intricate dial markers. What makes this particular one special, is that this is powered by a Swiss movement and is qualified to carry the “Swiss Made” badge on the dial. This was because to celebrate 100 years, this particular model was launched as a premium offering. All Zeppelin watches otherwise carry a “German Made” badge. I have fitted it with an aftermarket leather strap.

#onmywristtoday #germanwatches #swisswatch #Zeppelin #wristwatches

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

The green dial catches the sunlight damn well :-)
On my wrist today a classic, vintage styled, handmade timepiece by the @JaipurWatchCo . The centerpiece of the dial is a pre-independence half rupee coin from 1944. There is a silent horological revolution going on in India and am always happy to contribute to the #MakeInIndia story :-)

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

On my wrist today. Wearing the Tanjore Edition V2 by the Indian microbrand Coromandel Watch Co. Features a royal purple fumé sunburst dial with an applied silhouette of the iconic Tanjore Gopuram (temple tower) at the 12 o'clock position. This is my first purple dial watch and I think it does look cool. Maybe I need to pair it with a better strap in leather ? Burgundy or tan ?

#onmywristtoday #watches #wristwatch #coromandelwatchco #purpledial

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

@rajeshsawhney @puneetiitm There is Rajesh. My company NeuralGarage is one. But unfortunately VCs don’t care and only offer lip service, keep chasing rainbows. Everyone wants innovation in AI but don’t want to back it up with capital conviction.

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

I checked this IG post and the comment twice ! On a post by @akshaykumar , I was shocked to see the response from the official @bookmyshow_sup handle ! It reads quite rude and is probably a very mean comment. Unless meant something else than the implied meaning which is a comment of Akshay’s early days , this is in very bad taste.

@taran_adarsh @SumitkadeI @KomalNahta @fafsters

[Chinnu Senthilkumar @chinnusenthil1]

Proud to see our #startup portfolio company Neural Garage @VisualDub_ai featured in @Inc42!

AI isn’t just assisting — it’s reshaping the director’s chair. From intelligent storyboarding & VFX to seamless visual dubbing that makes multilingual films feel native.
@VisualDub_ai’s cinematic-grade lip-sync tech is already powering dubbed content for major studios & OTTs, solving one of Indian cinema’s biggest challenges: natural localisation without losing emotional impact.

Big thanks to @ankush_soul for the deep dive.

South Indian cinema — with its epic scale, pan-India releases & dubbing needs — is perfectly positioned for this wave.

#AIinCinema #VisualDub #SouthIndianCinema #NeuralGarage #FilmmakingFuture

@mandar2404 @Shaileshg21
@Dir_Lokesh @vp_offl @avmproductions @arunaguhan_ @hombalefilms @LycaProductions @baradwajrangan

https://t.co/2gzYp8Bh9h

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

NeuralGarage homegrown proprietary models “VisualDub” & “DRAMA” , both category creators in the Entertainment & Media industry, are now being acknowledged by notable platforms as an important part of AI in Filmmaking. Do read the related article here :
https://t.co/8y0ZWZQw2d

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

On my wrist today. Wearing the Tanjore Edition V2 by the Indian microbrand Coromandel Watch Co. Features a royal purple fumé sunburst dial with an applied silhouette of the iconic Tanjore Gopuram (temple tower) at the 12 o'clock position. This is my first purple dial watch and I think it does look cool. Maybe I need to pair it with a better strap in leather ? Burgundy or tan ?

#onmywristtoday #watches #wristwatch #coromandelwatchco #purpledial

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

This is how Cockroach Janta Party is trying to trap Gen Z in India😂😂😂

[SIKUBWABO Viateur @viateusi]

Cockroaches really said… “this is our sleeping bag now!! Turning the unexpected into their comfort zone real quick 🤢 You won’t look at this the same again 😭

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

I have come to the station to lodge the complaint.

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

@MumbaiPolice Location DN Nagar Police Station. I am sitting there.

I was in Leo Tennis Academy , Manish Nagar, Andheri West and some random guy came to collect parking charges. He has no identity card, some document that looks forged. How does the common man know that the collection is legal or not ?

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

On my wrist today. A @Victorinox Swiss Army I.N.O.X. watch. This is the first edition, I bought it when it was launched in 2014 to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Victorinox brand. To emphasize its ultra-rugged build, the official launch included live demonstrations where the timepieces were frozen in ice, boiled in water, and run over by heavy machinery.
Built like a tank, it is engineered to survive extreme shock, drop, and temperature tests. This is the watch I wear when am on a holiday or doing something adventurous. This baby can take anything that comes its way.

#onmywristtoday #swisswatch #watches #wristwatches #victorinox

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

Kailasa was just scanned with lasers, and if you haven’t been following this place, hold on.
What’s being uncovered here won’t just rewrite Indian history. It could rewrite human history and prove Ancient India had tools far more advanced than we’ve been told.

But first, you have to understand what you’re looking at. Kailasa wasn’t built. It was removed from the side of a mountain. That means there was no room for mistakes while carving one of the hardest rocks on Earth. Between 200,000 and 400,000 tons of basalt were removed to create it. The first mystery is simple: we don’t know where it all went. We also don’t truly know when it was built. The main dating sources are two land grants, but that doesn’t tell us when the actual carving began. Dating matters because it would tell us what tools they had. Ancient India had steel by 600 BC, which later became the famous Damascus steel. But basalt is hardened lava. It’s around a 6 on the Mohs scale, meaning steel barely scratches it. In 1682, a Mughal emperor ordered 1,000 workers to destroy Kailasa. They failed. That alone shows how hard this stone is. Even with modern alloys, humans barely make a dent. Russian researchers tested this by having people strike basalt with modern tools, then measuring the removed volume with photogrammetry. The result? One person working every day for 3 years could remove only about 1 cubic meter. And since Kailasa is unfinished, we still have tool marks. Those marks show cuts deeper than what modern hydraulic breakers can achieve. To penetrate basalt that deeply, we’d normally need huge machinery. But machines that size wouldn’t fit in many of these spaces. So clearly, they had different tools. Not just powerful tools. Precision tools. The detail in Kailasa’s carvings looks like work done in soft soapstone, except it’s carved into basalt. What we know for sure is that our assumptions about ancient India are wrong. At minimum, they were far more advanced than we give them credit for. At most, something was happening back then that we still don’t fully comprehend.

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

@tarundua81 @BlumeVentures Bro, you guys have built a phenomenal business. It is entirely their loss.

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

Love having such visitors in the morning :-)

[Mandar Natekar @mandar2404]

There is a light that blinks the minute you start recording. I got gifted one recently and it is incredible to capture pov moments / memories seamlessly. The resolution is better than a video shot on iphone. I am loving it, my son plays tennis, I use it to record him playing in tournaments. It is that good.