I happened to stumble upon this today and wanted to talk about it. Bujji & Bhairava is an animated 2-episode mini-series (15 minutes each) prelude to one of the most expensive Indian movies ever made, Kalki 2898 AD.

Now, as far as I can tell from the trailer, Kalki 2898 AD doesn’t actually look cyberpunk to me. It looks more like Stargate or Gods of Egypt, where “the gods” have glowy futuristic technology but the humans are just living regular (non-scifi) lives. Yet this 2-episode animated prelude absolutely takes place in an Indian version of a cyberpunk city. The main character is a high-tech low-life bounty hunter who finds an android head and installs into a car to help him capture bounties. He’s trying to make enough money so he can enter The Complex. Although I can’t tell if The Complex is where all the rich people live (which would be even more cyberpunk) or if it’s where “the gods” live (which I’d call less cyberpunk).

Anyway, these two 15-minute episodes are available on Amazon Prime. And the movie they’re leading up to, Kalki 2898 AD, releases on June 27.