Hyderabad, Feb. 25 -- In a major technological leap for Indian cinema, filmmaker SS Rajamouli on Wednesday unveiled the country's most advanced Motion Capture facility at Hyderabad's Annapurna Studios, revealing that crucial sequences of his upcoming film 'Varanasi', starring Mahesh Babu and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, were shot using the cutting-edge technology.

Christened the A&M MoCap Lab, the facility marks a collaboration between actor Akkineni Nagarjuna's Annapurna Studios and producer Shobu Yarlagadda's Mihira Visual Labs. The lab is powered by Hollywood-based Animatrik Film Design, a global leader in motion capture technology.

The unveiling signals what industry insiders describe as a defining moment in India's creative and technolog...