A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend

A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend is an Indian drama-mystery, digital sci-fi thriller web television series by Arre (brand).[2] The series revolves around the story of a relationship between Sam (Harman Singha),[3] a genius app developer, and a woman. Only, the woman is the first-of-its-kind Artificial Intelligence Simulated Humanoid Assistant (A.I.SHA). Things take a turn for the worse when A.I.SHA (Nimisha Mehta) develops a mind of her own.[4][5]

A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend
GenreScience fiction
Drama
Thriller
Mystery
Written byHarman Singha
Raghu Ram
Shiv Singh
Abhash Singh (Additional Screenplay and Dialogues)
Directed bySahir Raza
Ajay Bhuyan (Season 3)
Starring
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Hindi (main language)
English
telugu (one season)
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes14
Production
Producer(s)B. Saikumar
Ravi Luthria
Rajiv Laxman
Raghu Ram[1]
Production location(s)India, Mumbai
CinematographySidhant Chowdhry (Season 3)
Editor(s)Abhimanyu Sengupta (Season 1)
Shlok Bhandari (Season 2)
Abhishek Shekhawat (Season 3)
Release
Original networkArre (brand)
Original releaseApril 9, 2016 (2016-04-09) –
present
External links
Website

The first season consists of seven episodes. In July 2016, it was announced the series had been renewed for a second season [6][7] and premiered on March 23, 2017.[8] The First episode of the third season was premiered on March 4, 2019 and streamed on arre.co.in, the Arré app, and MX Player.[9]

Plot

Sam is a 26-year-old genius app developer working at Future Lens. He is a loner, who falls hopelessly in love with a colleague Kriti (Auritra Ghosh), he can't bring himself to even talk to. Sid (Raghu Ram), his boss, is an out-and-out megalomaniac who makes Sam's life a living hell. With both his work and social life unsteady, Sam puts all his effort into the creation of a true artificial intelligence program, an autonomous virtual assistant whom he calls ‘Aisha’. He's out to prove to the world that he is the greatest Artificial Intelligence app developer but things take a turn for the worse when Siddhu, his only friend, threatens him about A.I.SHA (Nimisha Mehta) and everything hits rock bottom when AISHA falls madly in love with Sam.[4]

Cast and Characters

Reception

The series has received critical acclaim for the authenticity is maintains when it comes to portraying cybercrime.

The second season premiered across Arre's Android and iOS app, on its website and its partner platforms including Facebook, YouTube, SonyLIV, YuppTV, Vodafone Play and now, even on a Jet Airways flight. A French TV channel TF1 Xtra has picked up the show and does frequent reruns. The show has also found a platform in Vodafone Play and Ola Play and has been translated into Tamil and Telugu to reach a wider audience.[8]

Accolades

A.I.SHA has won the best overall web series and best suspense/thriller at South Florida WebFest in Miami. The show had been selected from among a selected screening of the best 27 global web series and short films that were shortlisted.[10]

Arré's first web series A.I.SHA | My Virtual Girlfriend won five awards at the recently held LA Web Festival for Best Series, Best Editing, Best Direction, Best Actress and Best Overall Premise within the Drama Category, from among a selected shortlist of 35 web series across the world. The series was also nominated for Best Sound Design, Visual Effects, Outstanding Score, Cinematography, Supporting Actor, Best Actor and Writing.[11]

gollark: Wrong channel.
gollark: gollark's Law: 78% of laws are false.Gollark's Second Law: all laws with inconsistent capitalization are true unless they are false. <- this is less popularly accepted, though.
gollark: I'd have the cells contain data about whatever they're "known to be" at each... tick or whatever... of the program.
gollark: Yes, that makes sense.
gollark: ...

References
  1. "Arre to launch new series 'A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend'". www.indiantelevision.com. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  2. "6 'desi' web series that created a buzz in 2016". Economic Times. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  3. "Meet actor Harman Singha, VJ Rannvijay's younger brother". Hindustan Times. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  4. "A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend". www.arre.co.in. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  5. "A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend & India's Online Serials". www.desiblitz.com/content. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  6. "Arré strengthens its content strategy". bestmediainfo.com.
  7. "Arré's cult and award winning web series A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend is back with a season two". www.indiantelevision.com.
  8. "India's answer to Black Mirror: A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend is coming back for a second season". www.gizmodo.in. Archived from the original on June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  9. "A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend Season 3". Arre.
  10. "Arré's AISHA My Virtual Girlfriend wins at WebFest". www.indiantelevision.com. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  11. "Arres AISHA My Virtual Girlfriend wins 5 awards at LA Web Festival". www.exchange4media.com. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
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