The World is Calling. India Must Answer

By Pickle March 5, 2026

ABAI is mobilizing India’s creative ecosystem to capture high-value opportunities across Europe, Korea, and Central Asia through global collaborations. By Ganesh Papanna

For over a decade, ABAI has demonstrated what focused collaboration between industry, government, and academia can achieve. What began as a platform to nurture Karnataka’s AVGC ecosystem has evolved into a globally respected movement.

Today, a new opportunity stands before us — and it lies across international markets. Europe, Korea and Central Asia.

We have taken delegations to Armenia and Uzbekistan and they have in principle MOUs with ABAI. Our acceleration will come from leveraging the opportunities in international locations.

In many of these locations, film commissions, regional funds, and broadcasters are actively seeking co-production partners. Generous tax rebates, structured funding windows, and treaty frameworks are designed to encourage cross-border collaboration. For India’s AVGC-XR sector — particularly VFX, animation, and virtual production — this is not a peripheral opportunity. It is strategic imeprative.

ABAI is uniquely positioned to convert these openings into tangible outcomes.

Our ecosystem combines creative depth, production scalability, cost advantage, and proven global delivery standards. What Europe seeks is trusted execution partners. What India seeks is greater IP participation and long-term export value.

The moment demands structured engagement at a policy level.

By enabling deeper ministerial dialogue, strengthening co-production pathways, and aligning funding mechanisms, we can expand India’s role from service provider to strategic collaborator.

This is about more than projects. It is about corridors.

Europe « Karnataka / Korea « Karnataka/ Karnataka « West Asia

Co-production « Co-creation / Services « Shared IP

If we act decisively, we can broaden funding horizons, attract larger cross-border investments, and position India’s creative economy at the centre of global storytelling.

The opportunity is not distant. It is immediate. And ABAI has taken more international delegations and received more incoming international in AVGC XR than any other. ABAI stands ready to lead the conversation.