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Mehul Agarwal Is Teaching AI to Listen Before It Shoots
The Koyal founder began with stand-up jokes, a pandemic meme group and machine-learning research. Now he and his sister Gauri are building an audio-first filmmaking system where the camera is software and consent is part of the architecture.
Koyal
Koyal is an agentic AI filmmaking platform (Y Combinator F25) that turns a script or an audio clip - a song, a podcast, a voiceover - into a finished, personalized video with consistent characters, settings and camera work. Founded by CMU/MIT/Meta alumni siblings Mehul and Gauri Agarwal, the company follows a Pixar-style 'audio first, visuals second' approach and has run paid pilots with Universal Music, T-Series and Bollywood studios, producing music videos for artists like A.R. Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan.