From Ajmer to the World Stage
The origin story.
No degree. No mentor. No roadmap. Just a small town, internet, and obsession. From Ajmer → global stage. Now building the system he never had.
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2019
Student Politician, Ajmer
Running large election campaigns in Rajasthan. Managing teams of thousands. Learning persuasion, scale, and distribution before AI was even on the radar.
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2020
The Black Eyed Peas Moment
COVID lockdown. Stumbles on deepfake tech in a Black Eyed Peas music video. Self-teaches from Faceswap forums, Reddit, and Cornell research papers. Zero formal training.
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Oct 2020
Founds The Indian Deepfaker
Launches T.I.D from Pushkar, Rajasthan — population 15,000. First students enrolled January 2021. Quickly becomes India's go-to synthetic media lab.
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2022–23
Bollywood, Brands & Political Campaigns
Works on Bollywood films LSD 2 and Paalum Pazhavum. Clients: Netflix, Tata Tea, Ogilvy, Shine TV. Clones Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's voice for voter outreach.
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2024
Global Media Coverage
Featured in Bloomberg, Wired, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, and NYT during India's election season. The most-cited Indian AI lab on election security.
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2025 →
VisionDub · Sam Altman Doc · School of AI
Launches VisionDub — 117-language real-time voice cloning. Co-produces "Deepfaking Sam Altman" (IMDB 7.4, NYC & LA screenings). Opens School of AI.