In the sci-comedy series OK Computer , set in 2031, a self-driving car is accused of killing a man. Robots, however, cannot legally kill by...
In the sci-comedy series OK Computer, set in 2031, a self-driving car is accused of killing a man. Robots, however, cannot legally kill by design, or so it is believed. This creates a conundrum for investigator Saajan (Vijay Verma), who discovers that the car was hacked.
The cast includes Jackie Shroff, Radhika Apte, Rasika Dugal, Kani Kusruti and Ratnabali Bhattacharjee. OK Computer is out on Disney+ Hotstar.
Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi co-created the series with writer-director duo Neil Pagedar and Pooja Shetty. The show includes giant holograms, flying cars, and a superintelligent robot called Ajeeb that cost “much less than what it looks like”, Gandhi told Scroll.in.
The series had been in the making for five years, with “four years spent on dreaming up this universe, and little more than a year to build it up and give it its current shape and form”. Excerpts from an interview.
‘OK Computer’ is the name of Radiohead’s seminal 1997 album.
Neil is a Radiohead fan, but we were also inspired by 100 years of science-fiction literature, including Douglas Adams and his book The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, its robot, Marvin, the Paranoid Android [which inspired the song of the same name in the Radiohead album], and Terry Prachett, and Dan Harmon [Rick and Morty], and Matt Groening [Futurama], and...
