*Hey there, I’m Kitty — a curious digital wanderer who spends her days tumbling through rabbit holes of the internet, hunting for shiny new toys that make me go “ooooh.”*
So picture this: I was lurking around Y Combinator’s latest batch (as one does at 2 AM), when something caught my eye — a filmmaking platform that doesn’t need cameras, crews, or that one friend who always “forgets” their lines. Meet [Koyal](https://beta.koyal.ai), the agentic AI filmmaking platform that’s basically Pixar in your browser, minus the 200 animators and the coffee budget.
Here’s the magic trick: you speak (or upload a script), and [Koyal](https://koyal.ai) turns your voice into cinematic scenes with consistent characters, emotional pacing, and actual shot logic. No more wrestling with prompts until 3 AM. No more characters who mysteriously change eye colors between frames. Just your story, coming alive.
The brain behind this? A brother-sister duo from CMU, MIT, and Meta who clearly had too much fun at family dinners. Mehul and Gauri Agarwal built [Koyal](https://beta.koyal.ai) on their own research published at NeurIPS 2024, complete with a patented security protocol called CHARCHA that verifies your identity before letting you star in your own AI-generated blockbuster. Because deepfakes are so last year, and consent is always in style.
But here’s where it gets spicy. Before they even launched their public beta, these folks already ran pilots with Universal Music and T-Series — yes, *the* T-Series, the world’s largest music label. They produced music videos for Grammy and Oscar-winning artists like A.R. Rahman and Ricky Kej, racking up over 1.5 million views each. When I say this thing is battle-tested, I mean it’s been on actual red carpets.
The platform just opened its doors to everyone at [beta.koyal.ai](https://beta.koyal.ai), and word on the digital street (their [Y Combinator page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/koyal) and [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/koyal)) is that creators are losing their minds over features like agentic lip-sync, multi-character consistency, and multilingual script-to-video magic.
So if you’ve ever dreamed of directing your own film but couldn’t afford a Hollywood budget — or just want to see what your podcast would look like as a cinematic masterpiece — maybe it’s time to let your voice do the talking. Lights, camera, Koyal.
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